The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.
I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century. . . I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.