"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
--Upton Sinclair
My own observation is that "The Law" (that class of people in charge of creating, extending and defending laws and legal systems) in the USA has crawled inside itself. The legalists like your patent lawyer and others will give very persuasive and logical arguments for laws and the current implementaton of laws. Unfortunately, the non-logical axioms and symbols they start with are all legal. The Law has come unstuck from reality. This un-reality is a bit more subtle than trying to legislate the numerical value of Pi, probably because they've dropped the axiom that The Law exists to serve society.
Yeah, I've been thinking about how perverse legal systems are by fundamental nature.
Laws are made (to some large degree), argued, and adjudicated by lawyers. The more laws there are, and the more complex legal system as a whole gets, the more we need lawyers and the more lawyers we need.
Seems to me like the definition of a vicious cycle. There are no controls. Are controls even possible?
