> ... lawyers can recognize that special cases make the system worse, while still pursuing special cases for personal benefit. This is eminently true -- but ma

> ... lawyers can recognize that special cases make the system worse, while still pursuing special cases for personal benefit. This is eminently true -- but many, many lawyers would argue fiercely that special cases make the system better: more flexible, more accommodating of the needs of real people, etc. It's hard to say how much of that is due to incentives affecting perception. To quote Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" [1] [1] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair