I'm occasionally, oftentimes it seems when the topic is political, struck by the fact that some people simply cannot think. They seem to lack the ability to reason, the ability to reason from cause to result.
I encountered this once again the other day while at a fairly elegant social event. Two attorneys were talking, one older, one young, both smoking cigars. Their conversation was about the joys of cigar smoking, and paradoxically the evils of cigarette smoking. It seems young attorney has convinced himself that cigarettes are so horrible that they should be outlawed, that cigarette manufacturing companies should be force liquidated, and that executives of those companies should face criminal sanction.
All this rant while chomping on a fine cigar.
I had to wonder. Does the moron not understand that if his desire for retribution against cigarettes came to pass that his beloved cigars would be swept up in the same actions? Does the moron not understand that the worldwide manufacturing and distribution systems which enable him to purchase his beloved cigars would crumble without the larger tobacco trade surrounding it? Does the moron not understand that to protect the rights of everyone we must protect the rights of those who are least popular in society? Lastly, perhaps most importantly, does the moron not understand that smoking cigarettes is a choice, that people who smoke do so because at some point in their lives they chose to do so?
I could only listen and wonder, glad that the attorney in question was not one of my attorneys.
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banning Lawyers would be a great start....its the new redistribution of the wealth profession
bdenied,
I do think that attorneys fill an important role in our society, and that most of them are hardworking honorable folks.
There are of course horrible abuses of the system, and I would welcome a full and encompassing national debate on tort reform to see if those abuses couldn't be lessened.
Much of the perceived problem though is I imagine caused by our culture which seems to strive for getting something for nothing from corporations and governments. That cultural issue can't be laid only at the feet of torts.
Milliscent-
It's incredible, isn't it? I think some lawyers are really sollipsistic.
They don't seem to be willing, or perhaps able, to extend their arguments and understand the implications.
Perhaps this is the result, as Socratic noted, of one's livelihood being to make the better appear worse, the worse appear better?
Merry Christmas! Hope you enjoy a wonderfully Female dominant Christmas season and day.
-saratoga
saratoga,
Thank you for the kind Christmas wishes, I hope that you also have a very wonderful holiday and new year.
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