> I think it's just something about Law as a discipline that it attracts people who can be very literal-minded and who at least in their own mind are moral crus

> I think it's just something about Law as a discipline that it attracts people who can be very literal-minded and who at least in their own mind are moral crusaders. Why do you think this is something that is unique to the law? Should Hans Reiser be taken as an example of programmers? Should Ted Kaczynski be taken as an example of mathematicians? Should Amy Bishop be used as an example of disgruntled academics? So, you see one or two prominent crazy lawyers (and the wife of one crazy lawyer), and decide that this is something unique to the law?