Well, defending themselves for one.
Discussion
if you have a bad experience: and someone else screwed you somehow, do you go hold on pause the boat, and then single them out and take them to court?
OR
do you just learn from what happened, and not do it again?
simple example: i was watching some guys play "the shell game" on the back of the city bus once, in SF. the guy goes hey wanna play? I'd been watching and saw how it worked, and was like sure, he said pull a bill out of your wallet, and hold onto it. i played a round. he cheated somehow and there were two pieces of paper. my visual perception is off the charts. so, then he snapped that bill out of my hands faster than i could even notice it happening. saying "uhp! sorry you lost." fair and square fair and square.
did i go up to the front of the bus and did I tell the bus driver to lock the bus up and stop it until cops could come ? i just lost 100$.
no, no i didnt. i just learned to never do that again.
apply the same thing in sale, but then add the complexity of:
Well we've got this big company thing here and we spent all this time putting together, so lets hire these lawyers to "defend us" -
copy cats come along, (see also: flattery is the sincerest form of,) and a new thing is born, and party A from first company feels as though they're being screwed by company B who is using a similar business model,
but instead of innovating and rising above, party A decides to sue company B for "infringement of prior art." but ..... ?! why not just ***Be Better.***
and leave it at that. The very notion that someone copied you meant your idea had merit, now just make it better and do that instead.
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okay that felt like a lot of typing, going to go do something else now. But the above but scaled backwards and forwards is the general rationale around the why i dont like legal stuff, and wondering if you can come up with one or two, examples of a case where a laywer is actually useful, and justify it out of nothing but wanting the best for all the parties involved, and not screwing anyone over, regardless of their behavior. I'd be curious to see if you can. This isn't stump the chump, it's an ethical assertation untowards something that many people invest stock into, but I don't believe to be either ethical, or good for the whole of society, either.
Curious what you think. Take your time.