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There is a preference (for evolutionary reasons), among human males, for physical toughness and this is seen as equivalent to or superior to mental toughness--if mental toughness is even considered.

Which is interesting, because in most high end military training (like SEALS or special forces) the objective is to test the mental toughness of the candidate. You can reach THAT breaking point more quickly and easily than the physical breaking point, in most cases.

Lawyering is inherently corrupt--because the central activity of a lot of law (as practiced) is the manipulation of the law or of circumstances so as to avoid punishment... or to write/rewrite law so as to make that avoidance more difficult (thus requiring an intimacy with the corruption of principle and of language).

Ideally we should expect more, but that is an ideal and rarely achieved.

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