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damiante | 2 years ago

I have a similar desire for laws; they say "ignoratia juris non excusat", "ignorance of the law is no excuse", but that is only a fair rule if the law can reasonably be known. No-one could possibly know all of the law, so expecting everyone to know it is an unreasonable standard (unless we can make the law very brief).

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bell-cot|2 years ago

Oh, yes, THIS.

If you've meaningfully interacted with lawyers, you're all too familiar with how quick they are to say "that is not my area of legal specialty, so I don't know" for anything outside of their own narrow niches.

The stench of hypocrisy, where lawyers can disclaim competence for ~99.9% of all legal questions, yet expect Chris C. Consumer to be competent to understand all the ToC's that they face in daily life...yeah. People who just plain hate lawyers seldom lack for moral justification.