In other news, it's hard to argue with people whose job is to argue with other people.

Still, lawyers create little besides more work for other lawyers, and that's the ultimate point being made. It's not fair to call the entire profession a confederacy of leeches, as some like to say, but comparing them with arms merchants who sell to both sides in a war is not too unreasonable, I think.

I actually think this is an fair comparison, but not for every lawyer. There are plenty of lawyers I know who spend most of their time trying to end the war entirely.

I'd say 99.9% of lawyers give the other 0.1% of us a bad name.