Frankly, I’m not seeing what is altogether unreasonable about the sentence in the first place, but leaving that aside, you didn’t answer my question.
How is an arbitrary system better? Seriously: how does that make for better policies? If there is no fundamental law (other than arbitrary whims of judges and prosecutors), how does one make decisions about his actions?
Some think judicial activism is a good thing.
Good reason and judgment. It is the reason that you either elect or appoint judges. We neither desire nor require judges to be simple computers.
And if you think this is arbitrary, then you would equally admit that the justice system in general and the laws themselves are arbitrary. Why you would complain about an arbitrary judge in an arbitrary legal system is beyond me.
“Frankly, I’m not seeing what is altogether unreasonable about the sentence in the first place”
You don’t see what’s unreasonable about getting 10 years for a consensual sex act with someone only two years younger?
You must have been busy in high school, making all those citizens’ arrests.