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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: Warning - lawyer discussion. "n" key may be advisable.
Message-ID: <1875@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 11:46:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 22 11:46:38 1983
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Keith seems to think that everybody but lawyers are fair-minded, wonderful
people who would just never think of going after a piece of rich Uncle Joe's
estate. Wills are written under the circumstances they are because of
A*****ES who think that just because they've lived xty-x years on this earth
and are a fifth cousin six times removed that old Joe must have just forgotten
them - after all, he wasn't QUITE right in the head, was he? etc. ad nauseum.
Sooo, let's play break-the-will. The representing lawyer didn't initiate the
action (or make a need for strict laws regarding wills), the A*****E did!
This is just one example. America has zillions of lawyers, first, because
no matter what you say, people who know what the law is are going to have a lot
of prestige, and second, America is full of people who have what is 
euphemistically known as the "pioneering spirit" - i.e. I'm going to get
'my share' no matter who I have to tromp. And of course, since this IS one
of the freer societies around (thank somebody, anyway) tools are made
available for these people on demand - i.e. lawyers.

I imagine if there is a net for lawyers somewhere, they are burbling about
how engineers cause so many problems...
 
                                                 Jeff Winslow