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by barneygale 1431 days ago
Could you /imagine/ a world without lawyers? shudders
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> Could you /imagine/ a world without lawyers?

Yes, I can. And, frankly, it sucks.

I don't do my own roofing. The idea that I would have to argue my own case in court sounds horrible. I don't know how. And then the people who right now are (or become) lawyers would just use their superior system knowledge to extort others. Far better that the responses available to a claim of some tort are "I guess I should call a lawyer" and not "I guess I should pay $5,000 for this to go away or spend the next 2 years learning the law to fight it on my own."