Sevens said:
No, I'll hang around to point out that you've overvalued the significance of this BOS, you've greatly overvalued your own qualifications as a dispenser of advice.....
You're of course welcome to express your uneducated opinion I've overvalued documentation. You have no bases for such opinions, of course, but you're still entitled to have and express them.
Sevens said:
....you've greatly overvalued your own qualifications as a dispenser of advice....
Perhaps not, considering that I've done this sort of thing for a living, in the real world, helping real people for real stakes.
Sevens said:
You could also certainly argue sound legal practices that include documenting absolutely every one-hour block of your life, REAL documents, witnessed, notarized, in a standard and recognized form or format and any lawyer could/would argue that these too would be quite valuable in a personal defense against accusal from a liquor store hold-up....
Now you're just being silly. No one has said anything like that.
The reality is that I've successfully used various types of documentation, including memoranda of transactions, notes and letters confirming conversations or describing events that just took place, emails, notes placed in files, notes taken during telephone conversations, etc., all to help someone convince someone else what happened. That's the sort of thing that lawyers do all the time. It's pretty much routine when we have the documentation to work with.
More formal documents also have their place and can be useful, and there are times that formality is a necessity, e. g, a power of attorney authorizing an agent to act for you in connection with a real property matter must be notarized. But less formal documentation has also been useful; and I know this because I have used it to serve the interests of clients.
Sevens said:
....Is this necessary, and thus good advice, and "good legal practice" ? I would suggest that it isn't....
How nice for you. But in reality you have no business making that sort of suggestion and potentially leading people astray. You are simply not professionally qualified to make that sort of suggestion (anymore than I would be qualified to diagnose someone's back pain).
It's one thing to make a personal choice for yourself based on your values. It's another to make suggestions regarding the possible legal significance or consequences of various choices when you lack the appropriate professional qualifications.
Sevens said:
....the fact that some bad people do bad things with firearms (and gas cans and ball bats) simply don't make me wish to do nonsense that threatens my privacy and offer some level of hopeful "protection."
That's fine, and that's your choice. But it's still a choice you make for reasons of personal taste or ideology, not because it's good business practice.