Another classic r*ddit thread full of the most libbed up shit imaginable. Great for pulling some very dunkable comments, not great for your sanity or blood pressure.
This comment really struck me (although there are many more stunning ones) because Western liberal economics is bogus and the legal profession is riddled with arrogant doofuses.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ask/comments/10akt0g/in_your_honest_opinion_is_reddit_a_progressive/
I think I gotta hand it to them on the law front. The legal profession is riddled with arrogant doofuses and it's all made up anyways, but it does stick to it's own rules. And reddit is notorious for people posting absolutely garbage law takes with full conviction on the basis of "it's just common sense!" or "the other option would be an injustice!" as if that's not the first two concepts you have to throw out to understand law.
You're right that bad legal advice abounds on reddit, but in the US there are FIFTY different sets of rules, plus the federal rules, and each can be wildly different from each other. So just saying "I'm a lawyer" doesn't mean shit because a legal take could correct in one state and incorrect in another.
It's still the same legal system though. It's not like it's an especially egregious sin to apply CO law to NY by mistake, but that hardly happens because anybody who has a clue enough to cite one states law correctly has enough of a clue to not think laws apply universally
It's usually along the lines of "I read this single line of law with no context or knowledge of the system it's embedded in, from this we can clearly see..." and just..that's always wrong, but really common. It's the sort of redditism where someone says "it's not illegal to block a parking spot" and then somebody pulls up the jaywalking law and says it's illegal to be in front of a car at all times so you have been disproven my good sir. It's just make believe about how the law system works (always according to what I think is correct).
You're not wrong, you're just giving the guy way more credit than I'm giving him purely on my vibes-based impression.
Just saying you gotta hand it to them on that one. Could just be a broken clock moment
I suppose so - it's just that I've met this dude (not literally, but "lawyer-to-fintech" bros) and they have some of the most insidious brainworms out there, so I instinctively :doubt:
Oh, make no mistake, I'm fully on board that even most people that practice law have inside brainworms. It's just that "being better educated about law" than the average redditor is a very low bar to clear and unlike the economy, that actually does have set rules instead of just vibes. At least until you get into constituational law