>that arbitrarily

If they had access to better data they wouldn't have to do it arbitrarily and could more accurately target problematic people. I believe there isn't room for doing it arbitrarily as from my perspective it is a suboptimal strategy towards accomplishing one's goals.

>please consider that societies are composed of living people and software is composed of 1s and 0s.

I am not interested in making an emotional argument. I would be willing to hold my belief regardless of what a system is made up of.