Okay- I took my "name-calling" away. I should not have been so personal in my post.

Sorry to be uncivil, but I felt that the first post was vastly more uncivil than what I posted. that doesn't make the "name-calling" right, but I stand by my argument 100% and firmly believe the statement made by AS*CE to be rude, ignorant, and out of place.

And what was defamatory about what I wrote?

I didn't start this. It's just I am a Plaintiff's class action lawyer, and constantly have to fend off derogatory remarks from people who think they are being clever, like a parroting Rush Limbaugh fan.

Yes, there are a very few plaintiffs' lawyers who file frivolous cases and use police scanners to chase ambulances. And there are a very doctors who molest their patients. And a very small percentage of black people are murders. And a percentage of white men are rapists. These are anecdotes and BY NO MEANS apply to the whole- Logic 101.
The perjorartive should NEVER be used to classify the global group, which AS*CE did. That, with all due respect, is profoundly ignorant, and the act of someone with whom I would not like to be associated intellectually or socially. And reasoning from such anecdotes is the more socially acceptable intellectual cousin of sexism, racism, and other "-isms" which are socially and intellectually deplorable.

The lobbying group to which AS*CE referred are comprised mostly of ethical lawyers who make their jurisdictions safer places.

Sorry. I'm new to flyertalk and thus far had found it to be a great place. That's why I was shocked to see the attack come out of the blue on this board.

Lest we forget, I'm the one who came up with the helpful suggestion here. ASCE added NOTHING, just a perjorative comment from left field.

Use perjorative terms to classify my sub-set of my profession, and I won't sit idly by.

I don't see how anyone here can see what he said as being civil. Think of how you would have reacted.

And just because AS*CE hass posted over 500 times in the past 3 months doesn't make the cheap shot he took correct, appropriate, or immune from criticism. That's like saying you shouldn't criticize an old man if he makes a racist comment because he's due some level of respect that a younger person doesn't have.

I will defend what I do, and I am suprised I have to defend my defense. I didn't start the incivility, but I'm sorry if I continued it.

And to Canadians, I didn't mean at all to make a shot against your country.

The bottom line is, people who just whip out anecdotes to turn public opion agaisnt plaintiffs' lawyers as a whole are, in my opinion, dangerous. I will defend what I consider to be the intellectually stronger position.


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