shadylady wrote:CrustyOldFart: Except that not all menial laborers are ditzes and not all people with white collar jobs are intelligent. The lady in the video is supposedly a lawyer. She doesn't seem very smart, but somehow she's managed to be labeled as a lawyer in this video. I suppose it can be argued that becoming a lawyer doesn't necessarily require intelligence, just a really good memory for illogical details.... Okay, come to think about it, maybe intelligence could get in the way of becoming a lawyer. I don't know anymore!
Intelligence is not required if you are mindlessly conforming to the expectations of stupid people. That is true and much of our legal system seems to have been designed by stupid people. Actually I think our legal system has developed haphazardly as the result of randomly inconsistent rulings of judges who interpreted and applied laws in often arbitrary ways in order to accommodate the desires of those they sought to please. Possibly our legal system is in need of an overhaul. As a society we seem to have developed a dysfunctional set of priorities during the last few decades. The law caters to the needs of the very poor and the very rich, leaving reasonable people in the middle with a long list of disadvantages.