Greedy Trial Lawyer
Hypocrisy - Another Name For Lie?
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
The topic today is hypocrisy. Ted Frank apparently sees less hypocrisy in the world than I do. When you are Greedy Trial Lawyer by choice you tend to wish others would be equally straight-forward. Maybe we all need to select one or two adjectives to place before or after our names.
Mike at Crime & Federalism picks up the story. Go for it, Mike.
Ted Frank, blogging at Overlawyered, has an interesting post on hypocrisy. Check it out.My take: I'm suspicious of a person whose words and actions are incongruent. If a person claims to be a tort reformer, but himself files frivolous lawsuits, then I wonder if the person really supports tort reform. So while the person might not be a hypocrite, his actions would make me wonder what ulterior motive he has for "supporting" tort reform.
A person's words and deeds should generally overlap.
So while I'm not sure it's appropriate to call an alleged tort reformer who files lawsuits a hypocrite, it is appropriate to question that person's motives for "supporting" tort reform. If a person really cared about fixing a problem, why would he work to make the same problem worse?
The answer, of course, is this: Most politicians "support" tort reform because they have been paid off by big companies. Most politicians who "support" the poor do so to get elected - and thus accumulate personal power. When a person cannot obtain more power with the tort-reform or support-the-poor gig, then he will find another way to serve his interests.
To that last paragraph I say, Amen, Brother!
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