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To: koan who wrote (55069)5/31/2009 10:37:30 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
To pretend that once the law is put in the books it then becomes something to which emotion is absent is ridiculous

Its also a straw man. No one is claiming emotion is absent, only that emotion shouldn't drive a decision at odds with the actual law.

if the law is not purely intellectual and formulaic, then what more do we need then a computer?

Primarily because the law isn't and probably can't be exactly clear in all situations. It will have a very clear meaning in many, and a fairly clear meaning in many more, but their are cases where the wording of the law is ambiguous, or where how the law in question applies to some new situation isn't clear.
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