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I wrote an article once for a regional magazine. The title was "Why everyone hates lawyers" As part of the gig, I got to interview some prominent lawyers at the
by DanielBMarkham 16y ago
I wrote an article once for a regional magazine. The title was "Why everyone hates lawyers" As part of the gig, I got to interview some prominent lawyers at the regional level.
I'll never forget the answer one gave me, "Look Daniel, lawyers are not like doctors. A doctor helps you fight a disease. Lawyers, on the other hand, fight other people. Every time you employ a lawyer in litigation, if he is successful, somebody else suffers. That means that there are going to be a lot of people out there who don't like lawyers"
Lawyers exist to fight. That's their job. Even if they don't have a case ("If you have the law on your side, yell about the law, if you have the facts on your side, yell about the facts. If you have neither, just yell"
I don't know if I would go making phone calls, but I would sure as hell poke back at a lawyer if he poked at me. I would like to think that folks like us with lots of ability to assimilate technical details could at least make some kind of showing -- perhaps enough to run them the ones off who are just bluffing.
- TotlolRon 16y ago> Lawyers exist to fight. That's their job. Lawyers fight? We are not from the same hood...
- TotlolRon 16y agoAh. That really hurts. Lawyers are fighting and downvoting is spanking. Naughty boy will not say bad things about honorable professions again. I promise.
- TotlolRon 16y agoMore. Please. Hurt me.
- TotlolRon 16y agoMOAR fighting.
- TotlolRon 16y agoAre you guys getting tired? Come on fighters you can do it.
- TotlolRon 16y agoTake me to the cleaner. Go after everything I own. Leave me with no karma. Fight.
- ars 16y agoSorry, but your behavoir is not desired here. Go to reddit. I didn't just dowmod, I flagged your account.
- lionhearted 16y ago> Are you guys getting tired? Come on fighters you can do it. Actually, there's a maximum number of times you can downvote someone, presumably so people can't vendetta against someone if they get their feelings hurt. So, maybe they can't do it. Sidenote: I think Steve Pavlina created a joke word for people who are totally normal and in control, and then flip out randomly over nothing online in a comment thread - "Kittywompus." I'm not sure where the word came from (maybe he had a cat that was relaxed most of the time but then flipped out occasionally?), but it's definitely a real phenomenon. I still don't understand the roots of it myself, on the rare occasions I get upset online I close my laptop up and go out for a walk... it's like a circuit breaker, "oh shit, I'm losing the ability to think clearly, I better get out of the environment" - I think most people have something like this, but maybe a few lack this circuit breaker?
- Tangurena 16y agoI think you are looking for the "greater internet fuckwad theory" from Penny Arcade. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/ http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
- cynicalkane 16y agoLast I checked, the votes still go against your karma. It just doesn't display anything below -4. I think this was intended to prevent hive mind downvoting.