--- Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org
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> On Behalf Of andie nachgeborenen
>
>
>
> I am not talking about lawyers in general, and I
> wasn't saying all lawyers or mnost laewters or many
> lawyers are generally ethical people and a boon to
> society, though I am not saying the contrary either.
> I
> was saying, specifically, that the best _Ohio State
> law_ students are just as smart as anyone in the
> Ivies
> or Oxbridge (the point that Luke doubted), and that
> _Ohio State law_ students are nicer, more pleasant,
> morte amiable people than grad students in
> philosophy
> at Tigertown, Michigan, or Cambridge.
>
> ======================================
>
> And Veblen pointed out the utter folly of making
> such comparisons.
>
>
>
> Moreover, I am tired of lawyer-bashing from you.
>
> ====================================
>
> Take a nap, then. A lot more bashing of the legal
> profession is in
> order.
>
>
>
>
> You
> know better. You can't blame lawyers for all that
> crap. The drug war is due to the politicians.
>
> ============================================
>
> As elected officials they are law *makers*. Leaving
> aside the average
> number of lawyers in Congress, etc. since the
> founding of the Republic,
> don't attempt to use a simple redescriptive
> technique in order to
> distinguish law making from law following,
> enforcement, adjudication
>
>
>
> The
> Enron, etc., is due to the businessmen, the MBAs.
> The
> transactional lawyers (crooked ones)_wrote_ the
> contracts, maybe some of them, directed to do so,
> invented the schemers at the MBAs requests. The 3d
> World debt is to to the bourgeoisie and the
> economists
> and loan officers at the IMF and the World Bank.
>
> =====================================
>
> The international neoliberal regime is a *legal*
> regime. Sheesh, lefties
> have been bashing neoliberal economics as a global
> phenomenon for
> decades, but when neoliberal legalism is brought up
> you get all testy.
>
>
>
>
> We lawyers, especially we scumball corporate defense
> lawyers, have a lot to answer for, but not the
> particular litany of crimes toy attribute to us. For
> the litany that can be correctly attributedto us,
> see
> Ralph Nader's No Contest.
>
> =======================================
>
> Read it a while back. It's not a matter of
> personalities [hi Carrol].
> You're happy to bash the Brad Delong's of the world,
> but...I repeat
> myself.....
>
>
>
> Philosophers, meanwhile, do little evil only because
> they lack power, not because the lack malice. In the
> small areas where they have power (in philosophy
> depts), they do as much evil as they can. Asa
> group,
> they arte afr far worse than lawyers as a group,
> not
> just Ohio State law students. They are infinitely
> worse than OSU law students as a group -- the latter
> are very good people, and philosophers are
> collectively lowlifes. Trust me, I know this from
> personal experience.
>
> jks
>
>
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>
> Unlike you I've never met a philosopher with malice,
> but then if someone
> was regularly malicious, I wouldn't care how well
> they knew their Mill,
> Neitzsche or whoever, they wouldn't be a
> philosopher, imo. But that's
> beside the point as both our sample sizes are too
> small......
>
>
> Chill out already,
>
> Ian
>
>
>
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