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posted by Khusraw, 23.05.2008, 19:35

> It happens everywhere. Consider technical standards. Engineers make
> proposals, and then committees of senior specialists make decisons. In
> university departments, professors may propose courses to be given, and
> what the study materials will be. Then a department head or senior
> committee will weigh the proposals and decide what happens next. Your
> daughters may argue over distribution of candy, so Mommy or Daddy (singly
> or in consultation) will have to step in and issue a ruling. What lawyers
> do is reperesent their clients. Judges or referees or juries then decide
> who has the best case. And so on.
The analogy between the law decision and various other decisional situations has its limits. The function of the law is to protect the interest of the ruling group in the society, to conserve the status quo imposed by that ruling group. When the ruling group is replaced or its interest has changed, the law is modified, but the lawyer remains the same, he has only to learn the new laws. The role of a lawyer is to help people dance better on the music which is the law, the rest shouldn't matter for him.

> Real meaning is for philosophers, revelation is for theologians. The rest
> of us do the best we can and seek guidance and support when they are
> needed - and hope that the guides and helpers are honest.
And the greater and more frequent the need, even artifically induced, the better for you. The greater the retaining fee for your indispensable counsels, even if it is unfounded, the better for you.

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