> but trying to make them all fair would just make us all worse off Lots of ideas look ridiculous if you take them to ridiculous extremes. I'd feel silly if I

> but trying to make them all fair would just make us all worse off Lots of ideas look ridiculous if you take them to ridiculous extremes. I'd feel silly if I had suggested a contitutional amendment requiring absolutely everything in the world to be absolutely fair in every way. Boy, I'd have egg on my face then. It's easy to mock a straw man for looking silly, but it says a lot more about the one doing the mocking. > How does what I spend on my lawyer affect the services that a public defender provides for someone else? That's idiotic. In a contest between two people, one person having an unlimited budget absolutely makes a big difference. And you know this, because that was the point of your second sentence. > Your argument is rooted in envy Grow up. As someone who is actually pretty well off, and who has never been to court, I'm pretty confident in saying you don't know what the hell you're talking about. A desire to help the downtrodden doesn't mean I'm green with envy. You're just insulting a caricature you've drawn in your own mind with no relation to reality.