Is "Law & Ethics" an oxymoron?

No, but Lawyers and Ethics is one.

Lawyers go either way.

A lawyer is the one who will fight on your behalf to undo a wrong, to defend your constitutional rights. There are lawyers out there who's ole mission is to defend and protect the innocent, the oppressed and the feeble.

On the other hand there are opportunistic parasitic lawyers.

Law and ethics isn't an oxymoron becuase of the presence of the conjunction "and"

Not all lawyers are like that. Many are, like the jerk who made my dad pay him $1,000 to tell him he could do nothing about his case. But some reach out to normal families, charging rates they can actually afford. They could charge more, but they don't.

The laws of the people are not always the morals of the people. I live in Canada. Canada is a multicultural society because the textbooks and government say it is. But many citizens don't agree that Canada should be a multicultural society. We are allowed abortions, but any don't agree with it.

Take the American Government. It is full of selfish jerks who don't keep their promises. But the American people are good people. And if you're an American, I love your people and country, your a good people, and I'm sorry to say your government does not reflect that. Do the American people necessarily agree with what their government is doing? No.

Some might say "yeah, the politicians suck, but it's us who elected them". Well, we thought we were electing good politicians, and we saluted the promises and morals they stood for, but they did not end up keeping their promises.

In conclusion, the laws of a country, for example, do not represent the morals of the people.

Laws are written by the people that you choose to elect.

If you don't like them, campaign for someone else or run yourself.

Laws are simply the written codification of a societies ethics.

Richard

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