Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes man's noblest impulses. Legalism and the rule of law are two different things. In the hands of skilled and deceitful men, the former can too easily be manipulated to dodge or even subvert the latter and thus further poison the wells of public life. That faith is getting chipped away by lawyers and the cynical games they play in the name of pursuing justice. The O.J. Simpson trial took a big bite out of the public's faith in the legal system.
Lawyers have a completely different concept of morality than the average person.
Butters at Duke agrees. Both sides have agendas. . . . And both sides play these lawyer games with language as if the public isn't smart enough to see through them.