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**Roferurse** · 09-10-2009, 10:37 PM

I understand the overlap. That's why it's distracting. Throwing in legal regulations that may or may not apply to the ACORN rep is pointless but introduces confusion. Exhibit A: This thread and the resulting threadjack.

Actually it's fairly clear to me you don't understand the role of professional engineers. Professional engineers have to consult on and sign off on projects, for instance. Someone makes changes to a schematic, they need to run it by an engineer who can deem it to be safe and sign off for it.

There's a substantial amount of ethics and legal responsibility involved. It's not as far removed as you may think it is.

I still don't get why you keep up your irrelevant and confusing threadjack about whether legal ethics "apply." My point wasn't "that lady on the video violated legal ethics," but that "legal ethics are well known to be less averse to concealment of crime than ethical rules of other professions, so if her conduct would breach the former, more permissive standard, then a fortiori it'd be ****ing asinine to suggest as you did that her conduct is somehow par for the course in the field of tax advice."

That's no more "confusing" than to say "if X's recreational marijuana use would break the law even in Oregon where medicinal use is legalized, then a fortiori his recreational use in Texas would certainly break the law, so it'd be ****ing asinine to suggest that Texans smoke weed with impunity." Quit being deliberately obtuse.

09-10-2009, 10:37 PM	#23
Roferurse Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 362 Senior Member	I understand the overlap. That's why it's distracting. Throwing in legal regulations that may or may not apply to the ACORN rep is pointless but introduces confusion. Exhibit A: This thread and the resulting threadjack. Actually it's fairly clear to me you don't understand the role of professional engineers. Professional engineers have to consult on and sign off on projects, for instance. Someone makes changes to a schematic, they need to run it by an engineer who can deem it to be safe and sign off for it. There's a substantial amount of ethics and legal responsibility involved. It's not as far removed as you may think it is. I still don't get why you keep up your irrelevant and confusing threadjack about whether legal ethics "apply." My point wasn't "that lady on the video violated legal ethics," but that "legal ethics are well known to be less averse to concealment of crime than ethical rules of other professions, so if her conduct would breach the former, more permissive standard, then a fortiori it'd be ***ing asinine to suggest as you did that her conduct is somehow par for the course in the field of tax advice." That's no more "confusing" than to say "if X's recreational marijuana use would break the law even in Oregon* where medicinal use is legalized, then a fortiori his recreational use in Texas would certainly break the law, so it'd be ****ing asinine to suggest that Texans smoke weed with impunity." Quit being deliberately obtuse.
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