Comments on: Is Your Job In Jeopardy?

By: Silus Grok

Silus Grok — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:02:41 +0000

Hehe… I like Michaela’s answer.

By: Michaela Stephens

Michaela Stephens — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:34:16 +0000

I think there won’t be jailers and I don’t know that there will be people selling security systems or computer antiviru software, or spies and I suspect that if there are police their numbers will be much reduced.

I suspect there will be a lot of companies or organizations turning military surplus into agricultural implements.

By: Lamonte

Lamonte — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:49:01 +0000

Seth, Misty and MCQ – OK. You’ve convinced me of one thing. I’m not going to win this argument. ;-) And if I’m practicing my “millenial” posture then I won’t want to argue. I hope you don’t think that my arguments against the “need” for lawyers meant that I don’t expect to find some lawyers in heaven. I hope to see you all there!

By: Seth R.

Seth R. — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:17:07 +0000

Lamonte, don’t hold up Japan as a model. It’s got plenty of problems, I assure you. People are oppressed, robbed and cheated in that society, and if you are “lower on the totem pole” you just have to grin and bear it, with almost zero recourse.

Besides, roles taken up by lawyers in the US are filled in Japan by hordes of government bureaucrats. You trade one disadvantage for another.

By: Misty

Misty — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:00:11 +0000

Lamonte-Disagreements do not need to be heated. In fact, they can be very friendly. A lot of lawyers actually deal more with procedural issues than actual arguments. There are adoptions, wills, estates, business agreements, licenses, patents, and so on. Japan might not have as many lawyers because of their honor, but they still have them.

By: Lamonte

Lamonte — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:18:51 +0000

MCQ – Certainly living in the world today, it is hard to imagine anyone – even the best of us – not having disputes that need moderating or judgement. I guess I’m just looking at the description of the millenium that I copied above. And it seems that ultimately, if we expect to live with God in the Celestial Kingdom, our hearts would be in a state of complete harmony with others, otherwise we would be living in a different place. I realize the millenium is not the celestial kingdom but it seems like it is the prelude to such.

I’m not a lawyer basher and I understand that many of your clients might be wonderful people but they need your services because others among us are not so wonderful. I once heard that in some societies (Japan is what I am thinking of) there is less of a need for lawyers because there is sort of an honor code between people or between citizens and companies where disputes are worked out in fairness before the courts are required. I’m sure you would know more about that than I.

I guess my perception is that we would live in that manner during the millenium and our first goal would be to resolve differences in fairness and we would all recognize what fairness means. Idealistic? Certainly. But isn’t that what religion is all about?

By: MCQ

MCQ — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:21:19 +0000

Lamonte: Well, all my clients right now are good and just, and yet here they are paying me to do their legal work. Just because people are good and just doesn’t mean we won’t have law. Law governs relationships, and even good and just people can have differences of opinion about their relationships.

I assume you believe that even good and just people might decide they are not right for each other and get divorced, or create and dissolve partnerships, or purchase interests in each others’ businesses. Don’t they need laws and written documents to govern these things?

Also, are you saying that there will be no disputes whatsoever? Do you think people will be perfect or all-knowing? Cause if they aren’t, they are still going to have disagreements, and those disagreements will rquire advocates, mediators and/or judges.

By: Jordan F.

Jordan F. — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:47:18 +0000

I think the most important thing will be heart and hands willing to serve in whatever capacity needed. I certainly have those. If asked by the right people, I would stop practicing law in an instant and spend the rest of my life sweeping floors in the temple, or whatever else was asked.

By: Misty

Misty — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:44:32 +0000

Sorry about the duplicate. My computer was having issues.

By: Misty

Misty — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:42:26 +0000

You know, I don’t think that doctors will be totally out of work. Just because there is no disease or sickness doesn’t mean that people won’t break their leg, cut their arm, smash their fingers, or bruise their head. And what about all of those babies that are supposed to be born? Yes, we will be resurrected in the twinkling of an eye, but we have to DIE first. That means that we are still mortal, and mortals need doctors.