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Hello,

 

This is my first post here. I am a recent college graduate and while I consider myself an anarchist in that I do not want to actively contribute any energy to the state, I am also finding myself interested in law, consistency in its application, justice, and fairness. I'm not sure at the moment if this is simply an intellectuall interest of mine or if I would / should actually get involved and go to law school.

 
I am acutely aware that very few lawyers actually work in courts. Most are employed by companies to help them navigate bureaucratic red tape. And even if I were to finish law school and end up in courts, I have doubts that I would end up doing work that I could consider ethically "right". Judges and the whole electoral process they have to go through is incredibly corrupt.
 

My ideal society that I want to live in would just have the nonaggression principle as the only law, which would sort of put me out of a job in a libertarian/free society. Is it even possible to contribute towards that by going to law school?

 

What does FDR think?

 

Thank you.

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there would be a place for lawyers in a free society, but their main function would be preventing, negotiating, and/or resolving legitimate disputes between parties, rather than, as you said, helping people to navigate the jungles of modern legality.  Even so, I think if this is really of interest to you, there is a lot of value you could provide to people in the system we have now.  Just so long as you don't think you can change the system from within.

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