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People unclog their own toilets, and fit their own pipes. They solder their own wires, and jump start their own cars. They represent themselves in small claim
by true_religion 15y ago
People unclog their own toilets, and fit their own pipes.
They solder their own wires, and jump start their own cars.
They represent themselves in small claims court fine, and read their own legal papers before deciding whether or not to sign.
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You don't have to go all the way and become a professional, sometimes it enough to dabble and do simple things well within anyone's reach.
I think there's a lot of simplicity to the law and the logic behind it isn't too hard to follow. However, fear holds people back from even trying to learn about case law and the court systems, and so too many fights are lost out of fear (e.g. "I can't afford a lawyer, but he can, so I give up").
- blakdawg 15y agoAll of your examples concern people solving their own problems, not solving other people's problems, or providing infrastructure/tools for solving other people's problems. People who "read their own legal papers" should be commended for their diligence - but unless they've spent hundreds or thousands of hours studying the specific field in which they're signing papers, chances are there's a ton of meaning in those papers they don't understand or even recognize. Sometimes what's not present is as important as what is present - and sometimes the person who drafted the papers has included terms and conditions that sound innocuous but are incredibly important, or are completely unenforceable but sound scary. The example you pose probably isn't "fear", it's economics - e.g., "I don't want to give up having the other things in my life I'd have to sacrifice to have money for an attorney . . . and this dispute isn't really that important to me, so I'll just let the other guy win." I think it's a good thing that lots of minor disputes aren't litigated fully.