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Message: <blockquote data-quote="churd" data-source="post: 2619603" data-attributes="member: 30595">I disagree that this would necessarily be frustrating.  If the population and not just the leaders were CG then they would WANT their judges to make individualized decisions based on the particular facts of a case, not to be constrained by specified limits and rigid forumlas - i.e. Kord chose these judges for their wisdom, so we should let them apply it as they see fit, not force them to issue cookie-cutter judgments.Judges in the US have historically had VERY broad discretion in sentencing.  It has only been recently that sentincing guidelines have been created, and they were not a reaction to public outrage at inconsitancy in judgments, but the public perception that liberal judges were being too soft on crime.Again, I think a real world analogy shows that this is not necessarily the case.  Communist nations such as the USSR and China clearly place "the people" and the good of the state over the rights of the individual.  By contrast, the  US and western nations favor individual rights and personal liberty.   One of these two systems would clearly be labled more "chaotic" - and its not the one who's economy is in shambles.</blockquote>