The Plan

[Ahriman]

Easily proven. If there are two lawyers in a court room, one for each side (plaintiff and defendant), and one of the lawyers is smarter than the other lawyer, but the judge/jury sides with the less intelligent lawyer, and he/she wins the case, then what was more important in this instance.......being smarter than your opponent, or being seen as right?

First, you dodged my question again.  I asked how you know this.  Where did you learn this?  Who told you?  You answered with an example.

Second, you didn't prove the point you think you did.  Just because the jury sided with lawyer B in this case doesn't mean he was "right".  Attorneys lose cases all the time when their client is innocent and vice versa.  What usually happens is the attorney with the most resources wins the case, though even this is a far reaching oversimplification.  If an attorney is smarter, he/she may often win a case whether their case is just or not.  Being "smart" in a legal context often means you just know the laws better and understand how to manipulate the legal system, thus you "win" more often.  Are you familiar with the case of O.J. Simpson?  Simpson, guilty as hell, gets off because of two things, better representation was one.  Cochran was smarter than his opponents.  The other was jury nullification.  That's a thing that makes attorney intelligence and evidence irrelevant.  Bottom line is that you picked a poor example to demonstrate your assertion.  Try again.

I'll agree that people can sometimes be right when they don't even have the smarts to know it, but it's not the high percentage play.  What you are basically asserting is that its better to be lucky than smart.  Good luck with that.

You analyze things too much. Over-analysis can lead to faulty conclusions. And of course it's better to be lucky than smart.......two people play the lottery.  One is smart, the other is dumb. They are both struggling to make ends meet, financially. They are both desperate to win the lottery. The dumb person wins. He/she is awarded millions of dollars, and will never have to worry about having enough money ever again, just because he/she got lucky. I would much rather be dumb and rich, than smart and broke.