Commentators often note the proportional imbalance reflected by the number of lawyers in this country. Is it s good thing? One can argue (yes, the irony cannot be avoided, that we begin with an “argument” when discussing the “adversarial” system), of course, that the number of lawyers merely reflects the origin of Western Society — for, isn’t the foundation of Western Civilization based upon Greek Philosophy? Specifically, isn’t the foundation of intellectual endeavors founded upon the “Socratic Method”, which is the precursor of legal argumentation? The Adversarial System, at its core, is a dialectical methodology of attempting to arrive at “Truth” — or so it is supposedly intended. In a vacuum, that is the context of the system; in truth (yes, that age-old irony, again), because there is involved human emotions, underlying subterfuges of intent, the pure “competitive” desire to sin, and the sheer motivation of simply wanting to defeat the other side — in the end, what the adversarial system lacks, in most instances, is the exact counterpoint and self-contradiction of the necessary context in order to make it work: Civility. The Adversarial System, without the outer clothing of civility, merely becomes reduced to linguistic battle. But that is the system which we are left with when — over decades and even centuries — the natural course of every and any system becomes barren with the coarseness of its skeletal foundations. For Federal employees and U.S. Postal Service...
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