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Understand where you're coming from but your guilt is less waranted that with a defense attorney. It's not your job to enforce policies that don't exist. There

Understand where you're coming from but your guilt is less waranted that with a defense attorney. It's not your job to enforce policies that don't exist. There's a broken policy if doctors cand switch jurisdictions like that. In Europe there's https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/ https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/ that gives poeple the right to for free what your company charged money for.

__MatrixMan__ 4y ago
> It's not your job to enforce policies that don't exist. If you have moral qualms with what you're being paid to do, then a policy exists. It just might not be a government policy. Maybe we shouldn't expect people to become crusaders for the cause, but I do think it's reasonable to expect them to distance themselves from that kind of work (which GP did, kudos).
pictureofabear 4y ago
Personal and societal morals supersede government policies. Ideally, government policies strengthen societal morals, but that is not always the case.
salawat 4y ago
Why would a defense attorney need feel guilty? All humans are fundamentally duplicitous, which includes "the good guys". I'm fine with a serial killer getting the best defense possible. Without a strong counterpressure in a system, no relative virtue has the capacity to be emerge. Everyone needs a good defense. No exceptions. In point of fact, before the emergence of Law & Order, it was often the defense attorney focused on as the person of virtue in the legal system. Governments gonna government. They have tons of tax money to throw at locking people up. A defense attorney has their assistants, wits, and maybe a PI or two they can reach out to to get them info to use in the defense of their client. And even with a 100% open shut, they done it case, the hypothetical defendant still deserves someone that will exercise every legal remedy/avenue on their behalf, because, damnit, no one else will, and if we're going to pretend our legal system is even remotely okay, there has to be someone to look out for even the scumbags. The only tragedy is that like so much these days, the inequity of the system is laid bare by the paltry quality/funding dispersed to the Public Defender's office compared to what gets raked in by the big firms & outfits.
- random3 4y ago
  Agreed. Didn't intend to say defense attorneys should feel guilty (but some do feel guility, regardless), but that the reputation activity is not even related to the actual legal case. Moreover, feeling a duty to punish or extend the punishment for someone beyond the legal system reminds me of Monty Python stoning scene.

__MatrixMan__ 4y ago

> It's not your job to enforce policies that don't exist. If you have moral qualms with what you're being paid to do, then a policy exists. It just might not be a government policy. Maybe we shouldn't expect people to become crusaders for the cause, but I do think it's reasonable to expect them to distance themselves from that kind of work (which GP did, kudos).

pictureofabear 4y ago

Personal and societal morals supersede government policies. Ideally, government policies strengthen societal morals, but that is not always the case.

salawat 4y ago

Why would a defense attorney need feel guilty? All humans are fundamentally duplicitous, which includes "the good guys". I'm fine with a serial killer getting the best defense possible. Without a strong counterpressure in a system, no relative virtue has the capacity to be emerge. Everyone needs a good defense. No exceptions. In point of fact, before the emergence of Law & Order, it was often the defense attorney focused on as the person of virtue in the legal system. Governments gonna government. They have tons of tax money to throw at locking people up. A defense attorney has their assistants, wits, and maybe a PI or two they can reach out to to get them info to use in the defense of their client. And even with a 100% open shut, they done it case, the hypothetical defendant still deserves someone that will exercise every legal remedy/avenue on their behalf, because, damnit, no one else will, and if we're going to pretend our legal system is even remotely okay, there has to be someone to look out for even the scumbags. The only tragedy is that like so much these days, the inequity of the system is laid bare by the paltry quality/funding dispersed to the Public Defender's office compared to what gets raked in by the big firms & outfits.

random3 4y ago
Agreed. Didn't intend to say defense attorneys should feel guilty (but some do feel guility, regardless), but that the reputation activity is not even related to the actual legal case. Moreover, feeling a duty to punish or extend the punishment for someone beyond the legal system reminds me of Monty Python stoning scene.