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 Yet, ''what is doubt''? What is this existential flummery, that fogs our interior on even the sunniest day? Whence that numbing smoke that more thickly fills our mortal cockpit, day by day?
 ===Doubt avoidance as the job description===
-One might, and readers, I do, make the case that the entire role of a commercial solicitor can be boiled down to “avoiding doubt”. That’s the day job. Now there may be some nugatory regulatory cross-checking required, to be sure, but as [[regulation]] is typically designed not to be flakey or ambiguous — an ambition it does sometimes fall short of, I grant you — the job of advising on it ought not be the one that keeps home fires burning.
+One might make the case that the entire role of a commercial solicitor can be boiled down to “avoiding ''destructive'' doubt” that undermines commercial relationships. That’s the day job. Now there may be some nugatory regulatory cross-checking required, to be sure, but as [[regulation]] is typically designed not to be flakey or ambiguous — an ambition it does sometimes fall short of, I grant you — the job of advising on it ought not be the one that keeps home fires burning.
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