Lawyers are a special type of person in our society. They think in ways that all of us think but then take it to a new level in their effort to help their clients, whether the client is human a corporate entity. Lawyers practice reading things and then arguing for and against outcomes based on what things say.
Lawyers help interpret laws developed by our governments and then translate those interpretations so that people not steeped in the law can go out and live their daily lives and not violate the law or know how to violate it without getting into trouble.
Lawyers are in a profession where they are sometimes called on to use words against people in an effort to control those people.
I respect lawyers. I love stories told by lawyers. I had a college professor that taught a night class on business law. He would come in, set his briefcase down, and then ramble on and on about the different cases he had been involved in, the clients and opponents he had worked with, and such. It was amazing!
I've also seen depictions of lawyers on TV and movies that were very unflattering. Liars, cheaters, twisters of words, users of the system only they knew and understood. Defenders of murderers and thieves. Twisters of intentions and legal terms.
Lawyers have filled our government. It's thought that if you're not a lawyer you really can't be a congressman or senator. Because you're dealing with laws you should be a lawyer and know how to deal with all that stuff.
Lawyers have taken us to a place where they forced the discussion of the words "to be". The word "is". The word "shall".
Always remember that these are the people that we elected to represent us. Don't be surprised when someone trained as a debater and trained to look for alternate definitions and interpretations of very simple words and phrases turns all of that on us and makes us do things based on something that just makes no sense at all to people that work for a living. People that drive for a living. People that cook and clean and raise children and push buttons and type in keyboards and develop programs and systems.
We think so differently from the people that we elected. The focus is so different in our different lives.
Remember that when you read the news and hear about what's being done in our government.
