“What does you gut instinct say about a lawyer who is paid an average of a quarter of a million dollars for a year’s work in which e puts an average of 2 innocent people in jail for six years each and donates on average 2% of er income (5000 dollars) to buying mosquito nets for third world children, saving on average 10 lives?”
You are forgetting the lawyer works to uphold the status quo. If that status quo (“the system”) also makes arms dealers reach and invades third world countries or does other despicable things, the net effect of the lawyers actions can still be negative. Think about it as different math operators. You can name a number as big as you want but if I can change the sign of it, it will always be smaller than my small positive number.
“You seem to be considering the absolute worst case scenario, and adding in extraneous considerations to unfairly sway the argument to your side.”
I was thrown a bit off balance by the pejorative “marxist propaganda”. I don’t want to post too much politics in this thread so this will be my last contribution.
You are forgetting the lawyer works to uphold the status quo. If that status quo (“the system”) also makes arms dealers reach and invades third world countries or does other despicable things, the net effect of the lawyers actions can still be negative.
The amount that a criminal trial lawyer contributes to the status quo as it relates to the suffering of third world countries is negligible; it is fair to ignore such small constants.
Incidentally, I downvoted bentarm’s comment about Marxism and upvoted your reply (“Thank you. Marx was a very intelligent person”) because comparing anything to Marxism doesn’t strike me as engaging with the idea (rather, matching to an already-rejected idea so they can reject this new idea easily), and your response indicated your concern was separate to Marx’s.
You are forgetting the lawyer works to uphold the status quo. If that status quo (“the system”) also makes arms dealers reach and invades third world countries or does other despicable things, the net effect of the lawyers actions can still be negative. Think about it as different math operators. You can name a number as big as you want but if I can change the sign of it, it will always be smaller than my small positive number.
A curious note: If ‘The System’ or anyone with power within it actually took you seriously they would necessarily imprison or otherwise cripple your ability to take action. You have essentially declared an intent to fight against everything the system does. That is, if you had any significance you would be a clear and present threat to national (and even international) security.
“What does you gut instinct say about a lawyer who is paid an average of a quarter of a million dollars for a year’s work in which e puts an average of 2 innocent people in jail for six years each and donates on average 2% of er income (5000 dollars) to buying mosquito nets for third world children, saving on average 10 lives?”
You are forgetting the lawyer works to uphold the status quo. If that status quo (“the system”) also makes arms dealers reach and invades third world countries or does other despicable things, the net effect of the lawyers actions can still be negative. Think about it as different math operators. You can name a number as big as you want but if I can change the sign of it, it will always be smaller than my small positive number.
“You seem to be considering the absolute worst case scenario, and adding in extraneous considerations to unfairly sway the argument to your side.”
I was thrown a bit off balance by the pejorative “marxist propaganda”. I don’t want to post too much politics in this thread so this will be my last contribution.
The amount that a criminal trial lawyer contributes to the status quo as it relates to the suffering of third world countries is negligible; it is fair to ignore such small constants.
Incidentally, I downvoted bentarm’s comment about Marxism and upvoted your reply (“Thank you. Marx was a very intelligent person”) because comparing anything to Marxism doesn’t strike me as engaging with the idea (rather, matching to an already-rejected idea so they can reject this new idea easily), and your response indicated your concern was separate to Marx’s.
A curious note: If ‘The System’ or anyone with power within it actually took you seriously they would necessarily imprison or otherwise cripple your ability to take action. You have essentially declared an intent to fight against everything the system does. That is, if you had any significance you would be a clear and present threat to national (and even international) security.