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When discussing legal matters, please avoid making statements like this: "What I gave is pragmatic advise for a normal person in general situations." Avoid pu
by Kranar 4y ago
When discussing legal matters, please avoid making statements like this:
"What I gave is pragmatic advise for a normal person in general situations."
Avoid purporting to give people legal advice if you are not a subject matter expert.
If you want to discuss your own personal experiences, by all means you're welcome to do so and there's nothing wrong with that. In that case avoid making factual or categorical claims that could mislead people and certainly don't do so with the notion that you're giving people advice on the matter.
When you say something can never happen that's a factual legal claim that is false when in fact it happens all the time. Perhaps in your specific circumstances that was the correct course of action, but that does not mean that this is a legal principle that can be generalized and from which you can advise others on.
- gretch 4y agoYou're basically just stating a set of arbitrary life principles and then saying everyone should live by them. I thought my comment was 1) definitely ethical based on the fact the first sentence stated I'm not a lawyer, then later stating that you should always take the advise of your personal lawyer and 2) added value to ppl who didn't have any legal experience at all on the topic. You think I was using the word "never" literally? Okay well how about you just said "in fact it happens all the time". Okay so it happens 100% of the time right? Does it even happen 50% of the time? You're a hypocrite for criticizing the use of conversational shortcuts and then using them yourself. You've failed to convince me of anything, and I'm going to keep living my life and making comments the way I was.
- Kranar 4y ago