The thing that feels like a new phenomenon (I've only been noticing it in the last 5 years, roughly) is people being openly unconcerned about the actual facts of the case. People always used to have to at least pretend to care about the truth, or they'd be laughed off the floor.
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Date: 2010-09-08 08:25 pm (UTC)The thing that feels like a new phenomenon (I've only been noticing it in the last 5 years, roughly) is people being openly unconcerned about the actual facts of the case. People always used to have to at least pretend to care about the truth, or they'd be laughed off the floor.