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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 09:19 AM EDT |
Well well well:
"Mr. Lincoln managed making a very good living being a moral atty... a VERY
RARE thing to be attempted these days!", you say.
Doesn't the truth of that depends on what context you are working within?
i.e In a corrupt society it doesn't pay to be moral.
The good thing is that a totally corrupt society has very weak staying power.
Even corruption needs a certain amount of morality. It is useless to bribe
somebody that fails to stay bribed.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 03:01 PM EDT |
... about $5,000 in
personal weath and $12,000 in real estate according to the National
Bureau of Economic Research. (See page 4 of the referenced PDF file.)
The
most moral lawyers, if you want to call them that, are public
defenders. But
they don't get much respect from the public -- they work
long hours, have
unmanageable caseloads, get paid very little, and are
villified because they
represent "common criminals," even though such
representation ensures that law
enforcement and the legal system is forced
to work the way it is supposed
to.
But if you want to talk about morality, what about engineers,
programmers, and file sharers completely and, in many cases, willfully
ignoring the intellectual property rights of others? Who is to say that they
are acting in any more "moral" way than the patent attorneys you are
villifying, yourself?
And why should intellectual property rights be
respected any less than
real property (i.e., real estate) rights? Why
shouldn't I be able to break into
your home when you aren't there and just take
it for myself? (That used to
be done, by the way, before governments offered
protection against such
things and invented the concept of fee simple estates
in land. See, for
example, A Brief History of Real Estate: -
The Fee Simple
Ownership [ezinearticles.com].)
Or is your morality just a matter of
whose ox is gored?
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