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> Just as lawyers regularly point out, their work done outside of a professional context is no different than work done by anyone else. This is not at all what
by lolinder 2y ago
> Just as lawyers regularly point out, their work done outside of a professional context is no different than work done by anyone else.
This is not at all what "I'm not your lawyer" means—that's a disclaimer to say that they're not taking legal liability for their advice to you because you're not paying them. They're still far more qualified than I am to talk about law in the abstract and dismissing that as "appeal to authority" is a false appeal to egalitarianism.
- randomdata 2y ago> They're still far more qualified than I am to talk about law in the abstract While they have the capacity to be more qualified to talk about the law, that does not imply that they will choose to exercise those qualifications. Lawyers can be trolls just like everyone else. The work must stand on its own. If it is of high quality, then it is of high quality. It does not matter who wrote it. If an infinite number of monkeys wrote it, it is still of equal value. The person is irrelevant.
- PawgerZ 2y agoI don't think they understand what appeal to authority means. Better to just let it go.
- randomdata 2y agoWhere is the fun in that?