Excuse me for being greedy, but I want freedom and good government. - David Brin

After all, he muttered, what can they do to shake the confidence of a fellow who's got delusions of adequacy?

So if it appears that my argument supports the necessity of lawyers, please accept that I say it with reluctant awareness that things would be worse without them.

We need feedback from outside ourselves. Life consists of interacting pieces, free to jiggle and rearrange themselves. That's how you make a working system, like an organism, or a culture, or a biosphere.