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Originally Posted by unaluna
I think i figured something out. In lawyerese, things dont have to logically follow through an entire train of thought, like they do in computer programming. No - lawyers just jump off going boo! anywhere all willy-nilly and they think they won. But all they did was jump off the train by themselves. They didnt derail it. The logic just keeps chugging along to the next station.
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Surely that's because lawyers in court are dealing with human beings - judges, juries, witnesses - and therefore it isn't always to their benefit to use pure logic? Human beings suck at pure logic. They get emotionally derailed.
Eta: this only applies if I understood your post. Which I am not sure I did.
