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We re in the law business. mike: say that again, a lot of people would understand. the justice system is not the morality business. you want morality go to a philosopher, a minister, a rabbi, a priest. if you want justice, a philosopher. if you want something to be legally correct, that s what lawyers know how to do. now, we try hard to bring together morality and legality as much as we can. but take, for example, the issue if your a a priest or a minister and somebody tells you a deep dark secret that they killed somebody and buried the body. the right thing to do is to turn to the police, country do that if you re a priest or minister, the law says you have a protect the secret or confidence. often we will have a conflict what s right and moral on one hand and legal on the the other. mike: in another interview, you said don t expect too much from our legal system. don t expect truth. don t expect justice, because that s not what it s going to get you. that s right. and it s ....
Arguments with the lawyer in my office all the time and the argument was often over something had to be deemed as being legal even if it wasn t right. and i think that s a challenge sometimes for what i would call any average citizen versus a person who is in essence an officer of the court because the officer of the court says is it legal? most of us are looking at it saying, is it right? help us to understand that the court s job is not to figure out if something is right or wrong, but whether or not it is legal or illegal. right. you know, you hope that a legal system has something to do with right and wrong and morality and justice. we ve been striving for that since the days of the bible, obviously. but oliver wendell holmes got into an argument with one of his law clerks, a supreme court justice, but the clerk said, it s not moral, it s not justice. he says we re not in the justice or morality business, ....