June 16, 2006

Shades of gray

Amber has been assigned to a summer internship with a district attorney's office, and after being told, "You lean more towards the defense side of things, don't you?," she's had an epiphany:

The line between the good guys and the bad guys is not clear, and they reside on all different sides of the bench.

I think the post is well-written - she's doing an admirable job of trying to keep her balance. Call me a non-true-believer if you must, but I could stand to see more of this sort of honest human ambivalence in the discussions and depictions of our jobs.

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