Re: [Leica] Uh.... earth to wannabe lawyers

["Christopher Williams" <LeicaChris@worldnet.att.net>]

Are we talking about lawyer using Leicas here?
Got lost a lonnnnnnnnng time ago.

Chris Williams
New Orleans
www.zoeicaimages.com

From: "(SonC) Sonny Carter"


> Whew, Dante, don't be so hard on the King of Siam!
>
>
> From: <dante@umich.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Uh.... earth to wannabe lawyers
>

> > </begin tirade>
> >
> > The constant attacks here on lawyers (and sometimes doctors and
dentists)
> is
> > unwarranted and frankly, inexcusable.  It's time for some people here to
> > grow up.
> >
> > 1.  The suggestion that lawyers are responsible for acrimony here is
> absurd.
> > Some of the most litigious people on this group are not doctors, lawyers
> or
> > dentists.  In fact *the* most litigious people here seem to be
> photographers
> > and digital processing people.  Marc Small and others squaring off in
> grand
> > fashion is not the norm, but the exception.
> >
> > 2.  The suggestion (which has even popped up in this thread) that "I
don't
> > need a lawyer; I can read," (i.e., lawyers perform no societal function)
> is
> > absurd.  The proliferation of personal-injury lawyers is a testament to
> > society's utter lack of self-reliance and dependence on others to
absolve
> it
> > of its own carelessness.  Similarly, people like me who do commercial
work
> > know that many, many people (including a large number of photogs) who
set
> > out on business expeditions often fail to organize their affairs
properly
> > and end up getting screwed. This happens despite self-assurances they
know
> > what they are doing.  Then they call us to bail them out.  Just like you
> > call a doctor to bail yourself out of your bad eating habits or a
dentist
> to
> > bail yourself out of poor dental hygiene.
> >
> > 3.  I was not raised to make fun of people for who they are, their race,
> > religion, or what they do.  I have not observed the doctors, dentists
and
> > lawyers here ridiculing professional photographers. I don't expect that
> > photographers (or people purporting to be them) should attack other
groups
> > of people who work for a living. Anyone who thinks that doctors,
dentists
> > and lawyers don't work should visit an emergency room, an oral surgery,
or
> > my office at 11pm on a Tuesday.  Everyone has their own job.

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