Silencer, on 14 October 2016 - 06:02 AM, said:
EmperorMagus, on 14 October 2016 - 05:46 AM, said:
http://www.nytimes.c...ump-letter.html
I believe that's what you would call a burn.
The level of snark in that response is physically hurting me. Also, I wonder how stupid someone has to be to become Trump's lawyer. Have they no self respect?
They're a lawyer. Probably getting paid millions to be on retainer. So, no, I imagine they'd shelve their self-respect for a few years in order to retire early and rich. XD
Una, on 14 October 2016 - 06:15 AM, said:
Yeah. Doesn't matter to the lawyer. I bet it's like, "This is stupid, but you're paying for it..."
A lawyer has a duty to zealously represent their client. Either guilty, innocent, or whoever.
If a client pays for what they get. A good lawyer will zealously defend. They'll do it well. And it will be ugly for others because of that.
What they shouldn't do is knowingly hide active crimes.
If the client wants to sue, despite objections, they sue.
Don't blame the lawyers: they are the legal hand of the actual person acting.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....