Quote Originally Posted by Crusty View Post
That's why many people hate the US legal system once they understand how it operates. It often makes little sense from the perspective of common folks because it's a system designed by and for lawyers to get paid and justice isn't a required end product. In the story that I mentioned, the operating principle was the "deepest pocket" principle because lawyers' race horses have to be fed.

The fundamental problem is that some system has to be in place for regulation of the affairs of people in a civil society and no one has been able to devise something better that works, but once greed is imposed onto any system corruption ensues.
That is very true. I do believe that justice is for sale, no matter what we are taught. I also believe that greed has infested our entire political system. How ever, I also think that I will have to deal with it until a better system comes along.