Law in Contemporary Society

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Plumbers apprentice so that they may become well trained and certified master plumbers. I am in law school so that I may gain the qualifications and certification necessary to be a lawyer and attain a job as one. To me, the function of law school is to provide training for a trade: the trade of lawyering. I do not believe that there is anything that makes the law and the trade of lawyering any more venerable than other trades such as plumbing, electrical work, and vehicle repair.
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  • I would say that it is a personal conception held by many people, but the aggregation of a belief does not entail its existence. 100 years ago you might have found that a majority of people had a personal conception that miscegeny was an injustice to society. Today, a majority of people believe that animals which have proven themselves to be self aware creatures (such as elephants, dolphins, and primates) don't deserve the same rights as humans. Such speciesism may find itself in the minority of society within the next 100 years, for it is my hope that this will be the case. But we should not conclude that because a majority of society intuitively believes something is wrong there exists a property of wrongness without first justifying the existence of the property.

  • What is the significance of the apparently tautological statement that justice cannot exist independent of "the world"?
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  • I'm not sure how it is tautological, but I meant that the property of justice does not exist independent of our mind as we might say the property of red or wet does
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  • I'm not sure how it is tautological, but I meant that the justice does not exist independent of our mind as we might say the property red or the property wet does
 Question 2: I did not mean to distinguish having an individual client from working for an employer, but you are right, that implication does follow.

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