Lawyers, for the most part, do not add any real value to society, they only consume it but there is a reason that we have more lawyer per capita than any other “civilized”, first-world country: we love to be unreasonable and we love to protect our right to be unreasonable.
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As a (kind of) practicing attorney, I have plenty of disdain for my profession and find myself embarassed by it more often than not. The government long ago decided to grant a franchise to attorneys for the purpose of practicing economic terrorism and taking advantage of “non-lawyers”. My Mom gave me a refrigerator magnet a few years ago that says, “A lawyer is a person who protects his client from other members of the profession.” It’s on my fridge. Lawyers, for the most part, do not add any real value to society, they only consume it but there is a reason that we have more lawyer per capita than any other “civilized”, first-world country: we love to be unreasonable and we love to protect our right to be unreasonable. If everyone was fair, reasonable and respectful in their dealings with others we would not need a single lawyer. We only need lawyers because we like to be unreasonable and lawyers just take advantage of that. Lawyers also have a tendency to get elected to positions which allow them to make a lot of laws that are difficult to comply with (oh, and by the way, typically do not apply to the government itself) so that the franchisees can avail themselves of a massive transfer of wealth (to the lawyers) in the name of the law.
In this spirit, I sat down today to complete some of my continuing legal education requirements in order to keep my license in California. Now, I thought the practice of law was a sham but the legal education system is equally ridiculous. I am required to undertake qualifying study including, specifically, minimum amount of study the areas of elimination of bias in the practice of law, substance abuse and ethics. I didn’t realize until I read some of the study materials that there is another reason I so dislike my profession: lawyers are really full of themselves. I now understand where liberal politicians get this idea that they are somehow our parents and know so much better than we do as to find the need to lecture us citizens in the ways of the world while, at the same time, bilking us for all we’re worth (”I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky” [finger wagging at us like we are school children]). Unfortunately for me, I still have to be a lawyer to pay my bills, although I am slowly weaning myself off of that need, and I need to finish my 25 hours of continuing legal education so that the public can be assured of adequate representation. HA!
Go Bears!
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