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Entries from August 2008

Law and Lawyering — War?

August 5th, 2008 · No Comments

George Orwell once wrote:
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Law and lawyering is very much like Orwell’s “serious sport.” 
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