How to confuse a lawyer

[A-R]

Since we deal in so many discussions on this forum of what is "legal" vs. what your personal beliefs tell you to do in any given situation, I thought this comic in today's paper was poignant (note: this website likely rotates the new day's comic to top each day, so to find this particular "lawyer joke" go back to the strip from 8/18/10).

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[Oldgringo]

Thanks, Non Sequitur is one of my go to comic strips.

I'm also fond of a little sarcasm from time to time. Like Non Sequitur, sarcasm is not always appreciated by some.

[MoJo]

So funny and so true in many instances.

[The Annoyed Man]

So funny and so true in many instances.

Which is what we get when we divorce the law from morality.

[bdickens]

I don't see how that would confuse one in the least.

[stroo]

What is truly saddening is that in my experiance in business lawyers are often the ethical guardians. We as a society, not just lawyers, have divorced ethics from law and generally assume if it is legal, it is ethical, or even worse, if it works for me, it must be both ethical and legal.

[jester]

"The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." - Frédéric Bastiat

[bnc]

"The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." - Frédéric Bastiat

Bastiat needs to be so much more common than he is.


I'd be pretty happy if the laws merely became less damaging to who follow them than to those who break them.