Can you provide verification that lawyers are taught this or are you speaking figuratively?
Lawyers engaging in deception:
1. There are many first hand accounts of students being instructed in lying, by their law professors... even our own CC member, Desdichado, attests to this above in post # 581.
If you cannot believe lawyers are ever taught by their professors to lie... please skip the rest of this post, and just send a PM to Desdichado.
2. There are many articles, by prominent law professors (like the one I posted on a previous page) showing complete disregard for "truth" by delving into topics like the "acceptable limits of deception."
3. Logically, any profession given to parsing evidences in a rhetorical fashion in order to win a debate, will be naturally prone, at least in some degree, to employing various types of deception.
Historically, you find this exact dilemma occurring at least as far back as the ancient Sophists in the the 5th century B.C.
If you want to move into the Biblical realm, this is the same dilemma we find with the Pharisees during the time of Christ's ministry.
Therefore, it would seem to logically follow, that you could at least find some degree of "moral ambivalence" in any textbook on law which discusses actual debate, interpretations of statutes or precedents, handling of evidences etc.
4. Point #3 above becomes more pronounced if we consider the legal profession has no specific interest in moralizing over ethical paradigms such as "truth", but is instead concerned with interpreting the law in order to WIN CASES.
Again, we find this same exact scenario hearkening back to at least the 5th century B.C. with the ancient Sophists.
5. I suppose we could go on and on, but surely this is enough.
Again, if you don't believe attorneys are taught to lie, or to as least use some forms of intentional deception... then just send a PM to Desdichado. That should end the debate.
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