“Life Without Lawyers”;

VERY STUPID ARTICLE.


“Life Without Lawyers”;

ANOTHER SIMPLE AND UNNECESSARY BOOK.

the gist of his book’s argument.

We now live in a society where “teachers, doctors, camp counsellors, and government officials can’t do their jobs properly,” because “any time someone gets angry they can sue.” The result is chaos—frivolity in the courts and paralysis in government.

WHAT PARALYSIS IN GOVERNMENT IS HE TALKING ABOUT. ANY TIME SOMEONE GETS ANGRY??



The recent case of a Washington, D.C., judge who sued a dry cleaner for fifty-four million dollars for losing a pair of pants.




In the course of researching his book, Howard asked hundreds of people the same question: “How do you feel?” A lot of them answered that they felt constricted by bureaucracy. Teachers told him that they spent half the time in the classroom keeping order, because their authority was undermined by students’“rights.” “We live in a society in which a teacher is afraid to discipline an eighth grader for fear of infringing his rights!” he said.





The good news is that everything is about to change. EVERYTHING? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS GUY?



Howard, quickly limning two centuries of American history, pointed out that large social changes occur every forty years,


NO THEY DON'T.


and we are due for one right now.

NO WE'RE NOT.