I have to laugh/wince every time the “first thing we’ll kill all the lawyers” line is plucked from Shakespeare, usually as an anti-lawyer comment. If you read the entire dialogue, though, the idea to kill all the lawyers is to make it EASIER to overthrow the government. Lawyers protect the rule of law, and hence are obstacles to anti-gov’t types.
One of the best bits of email advice was to write the body of the letter first, look it over, THEN type in the recipient. Amazing how often I’d decide to edit and soften an angry email in the time it took to type in a recipient’s name. Most of the angry e-communication today is enabled by the near-instantaneous time it takes to reply back and forth.
This is an old saying, but I believe it…rugby is a game for hooligans played by gentlemen, and football is a game for gentlemen played by hooligans.