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Speaking in general terms, lawyers are a sign of a sick society. The law should be a set of agreed rules by which we all agree to abide in order to create a better society for everyone. If we need a specialised profession to explain to us what the rules we all implicitly agreed to abide by say we should do, or as is often the case not even explain to us but just tell us the outcome, the rules are no longer fit for purpose.

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You assume a total lack of self interest: A perfect adherence to Kant. I disagree with you about it reflecting a sick society: I think it reflects a real one.

I disagree that my view assumes a lack of self-interest. I think it's possible to have real societies in which people can understand the rules (not necessarily choose to abide by them, but understand them) without a specialised profession to tell them what the rules mean. Self-interest has nothing to do with my suggestion that it should be possible to understand the rules of the society one lives in.

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