The fact the legal system stands alone on it's own one foot is well
understood by lawyers, but not, unfortunately, by most everyone else.
The law is, primarily, a function of 'precedents'. When several
precedents compound, there may be some ancillary form of 'fairness',
although this is relative and doubtful. Most often, there is a group of
constituents served bitterly, and a group of constituents served softly.
This is about as 'fair' as it gets.
Legal ethics is a complex and historically rich field. It has no direct
or non-arbitrary relation to Ethics as presented in philosophy.
It ain't no can of worms we really want to open.
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