Law school teaches upcoming lawyers they are are not responsible on a human level for the choices they make in the role of lawyer, as long as their conduct is legal and comports with bar rules. If you love an impressionable young law student, do your best to teach them otherwise.
Don’t get me wrong; my beef is not with criminal defense lawyers, who provide a noble service. There are types of lawyers who help clients with evil things, and they’ve convinced themselves the evil doesn’t affect them because they’re only participating in the “role” of lawyer.
That’s the kind of thinking that leads a lawyer to stand before a judge arguing that the government is not required to provide a toothbrush or soap to the two-year old they kidnapped from his parents and forced to sleep on a concrete floor with only 10-year olds to care for him.
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