Lawyers are not different from the rest of society

[wispen]

You know that feeling? When you see two people you care about arguing, and your heart just curls up in your chest, and whimpers sadly? I get that feeling when people say nasty stuff about lawyers

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[arrghigiveup]

Heh, I get that too, though not so much nasty as snide. I've had one person ask me what I was going to do with a philo degree and then joke that I was going to wind up a taxi driver. And if I got a dollar for every time I got the snide look and then the question "So, what do you study? The meaning of life? Whether the chair exists?" (The chair. It's ALWAYS the chair; I don't know WHY), I would be so rich, I wouldn't be studying ANYTHING. People don't seem to realise that philosophers do important work; it's not obvious because it's so abstract, but it can affect the very way we think. Meta-ethics (nature of morality) affects normative ethics (how to determine rightness and wrongness), affects applied ethics (the more practical issues, like abortion and so on), and that seeps into the rules and laws that we live by every day and the rights we get.

I agree though, the lawyers really seem to get it. I think the only people that get as much flak are salesmen/telemarketers. And that's unfortunate, because you guys do indeed do good work. Definitely not something I would ever consider doing because of the HELL LOT of extra work you get subjected to in the process of doing that good work (and plus it would RUIN games like Phoenix Wright for me, and that would be unfortunate, because that's one of my favourite games ever), so major props to you ^^