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A quick definition of bad motive:

Bad motive: When someone does something with a bad motive, it means they had a reason for doing it that was not good. This reason could be because they wanted to hurt someone, or because they knew it was wrong but did it anyway. We can sometimes tell someone's motive by what they say or do, or by the situation they are in.

A more thorough explanation:

Bad motive refers to a person's intention or desire to do something wrong or harmful. It can also mean that a person knows that their actions are wrong but still chooses to do them.

For example, if someone steals from a store, their bad motive could be their desire to have something without paying for it. If someone lies to their friend, their bad motive could be to avoid getting in trouble or to hurt their friend.

Another example of bad motive is when someone brings a lawsuit against another person not to seek justice, but to harm them or gain something for themselves. This is called malicious motive.

Overall, bad motive refers to the underlying reason or intention behind a person's actions, which can be used as evidence in legal cases to determine guilt or innocence.

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babybunny

21:11

you have to care about something outside of yourself. a family is a good way to do that

KnowledgeableRitzyWasp

21:11

especially if you can make a good life for your extended family, then your potentially helping tens of lives and they can have a greater positive impact on lives around them and help a ton of people too

babybunny

21:12

we creating generational wealth fr fr

babybunny

21:12

getting out of the trenches

KnowledgeableRitzyWasp

21:12

@SirEggan: you got this brethren, i believe in your berk WL dream

BankruptcyAndRestructuringLawIsCool

21:12

Respectfully, I don't really think that's underrated. I think every acknowledges how lovely that would be.

SirEggan

21:12

thank u wasp....

BankruptcyAndRestructuringLawIsCool

21:13

Or is your point that *just* doing that is underrated?

BankruptcyAndRestructuringLawIsCool

21:13

Not that doing that at all is? I suppose that may be.

KnowledgeableRitzyWasp

21:14

yeah that “just” doing that is underrated for how much it helps the community

BankruptcyAndRestructuringLawIsCool

21:16

I guess I think being super altruistic would often be a greater help to the community. I feel like what you're saying, again respectfully, is the sort of thing people who have decided to be pretty self-centered/egoistic tell themselves to justify their behavior.

BankruptcyAndRestructuringLawIsCool

21:16

And to be clear, I'm not suggesting you and I are different in this regard.

KnowledgeableRitzyWasp

21:16

hahaha based, i respect that opinion i regularly ask myself if that’s just cope too

CTCSH

21:19

It isnt the 500K some people in big law get, but TONS of union rep/other jobs pay 150K+ to JDs. That isnt even getting into labor firms (think foreign labor big time) or HR roles where a JD plus UG and some firm experience probably gets you a 15K+ job in 2-3 years post law school.

CTCSH

21:20

That is pretty good money for most people. Find a partner near the same and you have good work life balance with 300K+ income per year. Set for life lol

CTCSH

21:20

150k+ for the HR one. But go look up how much HR directors get paid and know a JD feeds right into that, if you want it to.

KnowledgeableRitzyWasp

21:21

but then i have to actively make the world a worse place

CTCSH

21:21

Feed into it as in it allows you to get in 2-4 years post grad. You likely can enter one level below that with decent internships or WE.

CTCSH

21:22

You can be the change you want to see. You think that HR director recommending cutting 3 jobs so there comp is 280K instead of 190K is evil? Go and dont take that bonus.

CTCSH

21:23

Speaking of “being the change you want to see,” any ACAB PI kids going into police work that can pay 120K+ pretty easily?

KnowledgeableRitzyWasp

21:24

fair

KnowledgeableRitzyWasp

21:25

i understand that they’re necessary but some district attorneys are not good people

KnowledgeableRitzyWasp

21:25

there are some real evil people out there that need to be prosecuted but a lot of DAs are padding their numbers unethically

jb2028

21:33

I am pretty PI-brained, but biglaw contains multitudes - there are ways to make Cravath scale that are no more or less evil than any job

jb2028

21:34

If your job is helping one large corporation sue another large corporation, decent case that's morally neutral

jb2028

21:35

If you volunteer to work on the defense team for RJ Reynolds/Roundup/etc. because it's a career booster, not so morally neutral

jb2028

21:35

(To the extent you have any say in your assignments at a firm, which does vary)

CTCSH

21:54

They aren’t focused on the greed (big law) causing evil, they are focused on it eliminating opportunities for PI, good world type shit lol BUT trying to shoe them just a few of the paths that let em earn 6 figures with potential for far more (that is realistic) while doing that help the world type stuff lol

CTCSH

21:55

Someone else just said district attorney- google ehat they get paid lol

CTCSH

21:58

People get sucked into somewhat of a propaganda based myth around bimodal salaries with law school employment stats. Lots of these merely show “lawyers” and not “people with law degrees.” Lol there are TONS of doors a JD opens for you that may not open otherwise (or would take wayyyyy longer) and at the minimum, most corporations have internal policies for making sure JD (grad school) gets paid 10-30K extra for the same job as someone without that (or more). Who knows, maybe you end up an insurance adjuster making 175K after 3 years.

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