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sidrag22yesterday at 7:22 PM0 repliesview on HN

This has me considering law school vs something like, officiating a sport. A foul in basketball, or a balk in baseball are very much just judgement calls by the respective officials, kinda you know it when you see it. You can write down what a foul is, or what a balk is, and if you play by the letters of the rules in place, you will likely have a miserable game and it will be entirely the official's fault, you can also have a game where clear "fouls" are being committed but not called unless they go beyond what has been set as the baseline acceptable level of play(not in the spirit of defense or whatever), and it could be considered a wonderful game by all parties involved (let them play in action).

Kinda has me wondering about the implications of the BAR being the end all be all of a law school. Contrast it with a Doctor's residency and i think law school is very much crafting an overly binary right/wrong profession, and perhaps they should have something beyond it more akin to something like officiating a sports game, where they see potential implications of being too stringent applying their rule system when there is certainly room for being charitable. It is a complex issue though, because the charitable interpretation of a law gives way for bad actors to abuse that interpretation.

Now bridge this all with all the weird 1st level and 2nd level stuff surrounding medicine that is placed there by people outside of the field of medicine and imposed on an expert of the medical field. They have to apply their expertise to the patient, decide a course of action, and then describe that action in those 1st/2nd level terms to a non expert who for some reason is the deciding authority, despite downgrading the expert's actual thoughts by design. I know im all over the place, but it was a pretty good article that made me think about a lot of different applications of the ideas.