This should be a bigger news story.

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31. That quote is usually referenced out of context, this, an example.

In the play's script, it was a conversation between two villains plotting to overthrow a government. The idea being that without lawyers, the "laws of the land" would be unrepresented, leaving the community vulnerable.

Lawyers are like anybody else. Some are good and others corrupt. The US has a peculiar attitude about lawyers in that so many of us think their purpose is to prevent one from being punished for wrongdoing or to facilitate fraud. The attorney/client privilege thing is, in my mind, a portal through which crime is, perhaps often, facilitated. Certainly, a debatable concept.

It all seems to come down to the definitions of truth, absolute truth and our trust in truth, always an entertaining subject and the center of our fascination with politics. How could people, informed by identical experience and witnessing identical phenomenon, draw totally different conclusions about what they'd witnessed? Surely, it's not just as simple as "believing your lying eyes". Right?