Edit: My response was not a lie. Such an insignificant amounts of my time have been occupied with any substantial thoughts, because of the comfort of idleness, because it is so easy to forget, my default reaction was that if a person of authority decrees something must be done, there must be a morally justified, socially beneficial reason. A little bit of reflection would show that's not true. In the first two parts of this paper I tried to present the reasons for my instinctive trust in authority, and in the final part, I became distracted by the concept of how dangerous status seeking can be when pursued unscrupulously by young God-playing ADAs.

What to do about this freedom they in the exercise of their power over the indigent, over people who for various reasons walked into the criminal justice web? Unlike superheroes, the Harvey Dents of real life are prone to mistake, prone to malice, prone to ignorantly causing injustice while in the pursuit of apparent professional success. It is a power only they can control and refrain from abusing.