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An Intelligence Test For Superior Legal Minds
November 27, 2007
You are at the top of the basement stairs. There is a light
for the stairway. When you go down the stairway you
obviously might turn the light on to see. Let's assume that
in this instance you do.
At the bottom of the stairs are two switches. One controls
the stairway light and the other controls the basement
lights. Both light switches are in the down position. Do
you merely turn on the basement lights by using one switch
or do you use both switches and the side of your finger to
turn both on at the same time? If you turn both of them at
the same time, you turn on the basement lights and turn off
the stairway light.
When you leave the basement do you switch both
simultaneously again? This would turn off the basement
lights and turn on the stairway light.
Or are you a single minded person and you merely turn the
basement lights off and then when you return to the top of
the stairs you turn off the stairway light?
Which method was meant to be used by the electrician who
designed such a circuit?
If you switch both, you will make a genius lawyer. If you
turn one switch at time, which is what 99.99% of the people
do, well good luck.
We just told you we were very cynical. The example we have
just given is the type of thought that was used to create
the vast majority of seminal legal cases. Legal thought is
extremely linear and two dimensional. The best legal minds
make simple connections and they are proclaimed geniuses.
We make fun of them because there is no core principal to
make the law useful to everyday people. We would have a lot
of respect for legislation from the bench if the goal was
to make the law simple and easy to apply, thus keeping
people out of court and from having to hire attornies.
People who turn the switches one at a time are the types
who just love balancing tests and who love making things
complicated and difficult.
Are there two switches in your brain or just one?
Figure it out and practice a few times on the cellar steps
of your home or apartment complex and set your mind to
create good law. But remember one thing: Keep it Simple
Stupid.
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