Lawyers as whipping folk - OT
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>Ted or other moderator - this could be seen as a little political. If it's judged inappropriate, please remove; I will understand.
Most everyone likes to diss lawyers - I even have multiple lawyer friends who LOVE lawyer jokes, and in my profession (human resources), we all love the jokes too, because on our bad days, we spend time attempting to accomplish our work in the face of lawyerly trouble-making.
But the fact is, they perform a service in society. We are a society in which the law is very important, something for which I am grateful, and without lawyers arguing for the proper application of the law, many of the social advances of the last 100 years would not have happened, or would have been more difficult. I would not want Thurgood Marshall to have decided to become a landscape contractor instead of a lawyer.
It's true that there are negatives too, but it's like anything else - they can work for good or ill. But let's not shoot ALL of them.
Bill, climbing down off his hand-planed soapbox.