EricCWelch

We read this for reading club last year and I had forgotten all about it until I heard the author interviewed about his new book on C-Span's Q&A. The book was OK, but seemed to overly rely on scary anecdotes to make larger judgments about the state of the legal world. As far as common sense, it seems to me that much of what we do and how we react has less to do with common sense than our experience and our reaction to anecdotes. So we tend to be more fearful precisely because we have heard the horror stories of rampaging lawyers, suit-happy parents, etc. Many of the rules and regulations, the author decries, result from our feeble attempts to legitimize what appears to be common sense at the time. It's the misapplication of the rules that then leads us into the messes he describes.