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Here’s how {{tag|evolution}} works in a legal context. Lawyers are like [[gene]]s. They are mindless replicating engines. It is what they do: they ''spawn''. They combine to create {{tag|contract}}s. The contracts have variations in them. Good contracts that are fit for a given purpose will replicate more easily than bad ones that are not. They will [[evolve]], not ''towards'' a perfect golden mean, but ''away from'' the imperfect, gerrymandered place in which we find ourselves today, and into | Here’s how {{tag|evolution}} works in a legal context. Lawyers are like [[gene]]s. They are mindless replicating engines. It is what they do: they ''spawn''. They combine to create {{tag|contract}}s. The contracts have variations in them. Good contracts that are fit for a given purpose will replicate more easily than bad ones that are not. They will [[evolve]], not ''towards'' a perfect golden mean, but ''away from'' the imperfect, gerrymandered place in which we find ourselves today, and into the imperfect, gerrymandered one we’ll be in tomorrow. Can’t ''wait''. Can you? | ||
The {{tag|contract}} is a [[phenotype]]; a vehicle for replicating its genes, the [[Mediocre lawyer|selfish lawyer]]s. The contract is not a replicator in itself. The best kind of {{tag|contract}} will generate lots of little places for lawyers to secrete themselves away, snuggling into the toasty folds of | The {{tag|contract}} is a [[phenotype]]; a vehicle for replicating its genes, the [[Mediocre lawyer|selfish lawyer]]s. The {{t|contract}} is not a replicator in itself. The best kind of {{tag|contract}} will generate lots of little places for lawyers to secrete themselves away, snuggling into the toasty folds of {{t|flannel}}; laying elaborate nests of relative clauses; secreting their sticky roe on its boilerplate; fecundly feeding on all those juicy words. | ||
The lawyers will contribute to their host, spewing out [[without limitation]]s, [[for the avoidance of doubt|for the avoidances of doubt]] — each of which other little attorneys can leap into and munch away on — all the time chewing up and recycling the words that no one else — other than another legal replicator — will ever read or understand, much less, once they are written and filed, care about. | |||
{{seealso}} | {{seealso}} | ||
*[[Evolution]] | *[[Evolution]] |