I don't even think that the School's HR sees anyone as inferiors, just that proceduralism, credentialism, and legalism allows anyone from ever having to make moral judgements or solve moral dilemmas.

Exactly this. I had to suffer under the oppressive weight of the "zero tolerance" policies in school. As a kid who got bullied a lot for being weird (got onto computers at 5 and never really socialized much), the policy which was intended to help people like me ended up making things a lot worse. Other kids resented me if teachers found out about things they did because of the punishments. At least a few times I'd get punished myself because they didn't want to even attempt to sort out what had happened for fear of making an error.

People seem to see technology as something which will liberate them from difficult decisions through automation. In actual practice though, impersonal systems can't make reasonable decisions about individual people, and the errors they make can end up being significantly greater than whatever problems they solve.

I don't even think that the School's HR sees anyone as inferiors, just that proceduralism, credentialism, and legalism allows anyone from ever having to make moral judgements or solve moral dilemmas.

Exactly this. I had to suffer under the oppressive weight of the "zero tolerance" policies in school. As a kid who got bullied a lot for being weird (got onto computers at 5 and never really socialized much), thanks to the policy which was intended to help people like me, ended up making things a lot worse. Other kids resented me if teachers found out about things they did because of the punishments. At least a few times I'd get punished myself because they didn't want to even attempt to sort out what had happened for fear of making an error.

People seem to see technology as something which will liberate them from difficult decisions through automation. In actual practice though, impersonal systems can't make reasonable decisions about individual people, and the errors they make can end up being significantly greater than whatever problems they solve.

I don't even think that the School's HR sees anyone as inferiors, just that proceduralism, credentialism, and legalism allows anyone from ever having to make moral judgements or solve moral dilemmas.

Exactly this. I had to suffer under the oppressive weight of the "zero tolerance" policies in school. As a kid who got bullied a lot for being weird (got onto computers at 5 and never really socialized much), thanks to the policy which was intended to help people like me, it ended up making things a lot worse. Other kids resented me if teachers found out about things they did because of the punishments. At least a few times I'd get punished myself because they didn't want to even attempt to sort out what had happened for fear of making an error.

People seem to see technology as something which will liberate them from difficult decisions through automation. In actual practice though, impersonal systems can't make reasonable decisions about individual people, and the errors they make can end up being significantly greater than whatever problems they solve.