Law and ideals
January 16, 2011
So people say: “ideals are for the young, those brave sailors of life’s waters who have not yet had their passions crushed by the waves of reality.” Ok so I made that up. But the point is common: that ideals are left at the door to old man (or woman) crotchety-ness. When we get older and wiser, our idealism leaves with the ability to hold urine for longer than 10 minutes and the ability to use a “hip” euphemism.
I say nay. I have talked with several lawyers who still have their idealism organ fully intact and operational, and I fully plan on keeping mine into ripe old age.
In our semester introductary material for contracts, (and holy crap there is a lot of it for that class) I came across this quote and like.
“technique without ideals is a menace.” and “[i]deals without technique are a mess.”
