"Training in law is training in simplification. It is a trained
incapacity to look at all values in a situation, and instead to
select only the legally relevant ones. ... So few elements of the
totality are considered that complete equality is guaranteed. But it
is, through its simplification, a primitive system."
Nils Christie, Limits to Pain, p 57, quoted in Haney, Reforming
Punishment, p 271
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