God decided it was time to make peace with Satan and proposes an energy exchange,
under which God would send down cold air to cool hell down a bit. Satan would send
up warm air to take the chill off. God keeps his side of the bargain but Satan does not.
If you don't keep your side of the bargain then I'll be forced to sue said God to Satan.
Well good luck with that said Satan, because I have all the judges and lawyers.
That is funny.
On a more serious note , lawyer jokes are my 'pet peeve'. Meaning a trivial thing in life that annoys or upsets me more than it would the average person, or that I have focused on.
Many people (the people who truly believe that about lawyers, for example), IMO demonstrate a major lack of thinking-it-through.
One of the cornerstones of our freedom and free way of life generally, is the criminal justice system, whereby if you are accused of a crime, you get the benefit of a presumption of innocence and all manner of details that constitute due process of law. This is NECESSARY in order to give us all the freedom and fairness we love so much.
Part of that system is something called the "adversarial system", which Dershowitz has written about extensively (and I'm sure there are a million books on the subject). It means a system whereby at trial (and peripheral activities), each party is represented by someone advocating for them and who is the adversary of the other party, 100%.
If that system ever fails, or begins to succumb to the "yeah-but-you-know-they-did-it-so-why-defend-them" sort of thinking, it chips away and chips holes in the purity and reliability of the system.
Defense lawyers, if they are 100% advocating for the rights of their client from the perspective of being exact adversary to the prosecutor, are NOT ONLY "doing their jobs". They're doing a job that we absolutely DEPEND on for freedom, fairness, and rule of law. There is no such thing as the "right result" or "right outcome". The right outcome is whatever occurs at the end of a perfectly executed process of fairness.
