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"We all know the type: the homeowners who run their lawn sprinklers during water shortages, the shoppers who fill their grocery carts with multiple units of items marked &ldquo;one per customer,&rdquo; the party goers who pick all the cashews out of the bowl of mixed nuts.&nbsp;<br /><br />They think that the rules that apply to all the rest of us don&rsquo;t apply to them, because they&rsquo;re special.<br /><br />Consideration for others, common courtesy, fair play &ndash; they can&rsquo;t be bothered with those. No, it&rsquo;s all about them, all the time. Whatever works to get their way, that&rsquo;s all they care about. Everyone else is a chump, a pawn to be manipulated for their advantage.<br /><br />Of course, the examples we cited above represent minor-league boors. Their self-absorption and indifference to the needs of their fellow man have little consequence.<br /><br />But what do you make of a guy who tries to secure for himself the lion&rsquo;s share of relief funds intended for the victims of natural disaster?<br /><br />A guy who amasses hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees from a windstorm insurance agency set up as the insurer of last resort for homeowners with wind and hail damage?<br /><br />A guy who continues to solicit clients to make claims against the agency even as it&rsquo;s forced to consider going into receivership because its resources have been depleted by the rapacity of attorneys like him?<br /><br />A guy who objects to the agency&rsquo;s new counsel because they don&rsquo;t settle his cases as quickly and favorably as the previous counsel?<br /><br />Most indulgent, wouldn&rsquo;t you say? Most inconsiderate. Most inhumane.<br /><br />Paul Newman epitomized this type of personality with the title role in the movie <i>Hud</i>, responding to a criticism from his father with this telling line: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t give a damn.&rdquo;<br /><br />&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the problem with you, Hud,&rdquo; Melvyn Douglas responded in the film&rsquo;s most dramatic moment. &ldquo;You <i>don&rsquo;t</i> give a damn.&rdquo;<br /><br />That&rsquo;s the problem with this most incorrigible attorney. He doesn&rsquo;t give a damn either.<br /><br />&nbsp;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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