Friday, September 24, 2004

PR and Red Asphalt

So, I'm sitting in PR (professional responsibility aka ethics) and I'm realizing the real purpose behind this class. I get the feeling that many people in this class are really uncomfortable with the topics in the class. The prof. just asks this impossible moral dilemmas that you can't answer correctly since either way you answer you will be damned. By damned I mean fired, have you license to practice revoked, and also sued for millions of dollars that you are personally liable for. Thus you will lose your job, lose your ability to be hired by other people, and just completely screwed. Now people don't like this class because if you get in a situation that is a Lawyer ethical dilemma there is no good happy answer that resolves everything. Anything you do will be wrong and will be subject to some consequence because of that. The only "correct" answer is probably to do the "least wrong thing" that way the consequences won't be as bad as it could be. All of this leads me to one conclusion.

This class is about scaring the shit out of you. It is exactly like the video 'Red Asphalt' from driver's ED (you know the one they showed you with all the nasty car accident injuries). The purpose of both of these is to say "don't let this happen to you", and they do this by scaring the shit out of me. Basically, what it teaches you is don't get into this type of situation.

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