Week 5 EoC: Lawyers looking for Fame

As with every generation, what can be expected by ethics and common practices might as well go out the window. As with then generations in the past 30 years, the so and so called “Me” generation, the questions has been asked if people as a whole are getting greedier, selfish, and more self centered than they use to be. With the generation that is now graduated from the colleges and heading out into the work force, the term “Trophy Kids” has been coined to refer to them.

"They really do seem to want everything, and I can't decide if it's an inability or an unwillingness to make trade-offs," (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455219391652725.html) was said by Derrick Bolton, an assistant dean at Stanford University. As for the case of the fame seeking lawyers, this obviously also applies to them.

As for the case of Fernandez-Vargaz v. Gonzales, the damage that could have been done to nationwide immigration laws because of one of these so called fame seeking lawyers could have been immeasurable.
“Noncitizens with even more compelling cases are still living with the consequences of the Fernandez-Vargas decision,” (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/us/10lawyers.html?pagewanted=3) said Trina Realmuto of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.

To be honest, I find this to be a major problem, with today’s generation of thrill seekers more and more people are finding themselves stepping out of place of their skills and experience, and obviously taking very little consideration of what they are doing and what the consequences might end up being outside their own lives.

“College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago, as measured by standard tests of this personality trait.” (http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/the-culture-of-narcissism/) said Sara Konrath, a researcher at the U-M Institute for Social Research. The fact is, with little sympathy, and hardly any empathy, there cannot be an ethical understanding on behalf of today’s lawyers. Without those ingredients, people today can expect to rely more on themselves and less on the aid of others. I mean lawyers have always just about had the stereotype of being blood sucking vampires, now they’re just going to be upgraded to the next level. Whatever that is, really doesn’t seem all that promising to me. Actually, it’s quite the opposite.