There are many scientific reasons, I’m sure, why so many baby boomers went faster than a speeding bullet into the field of law. My theory is that people were generally so high on “truth, justice and the American way” in the post-war 1940s and ’50s, that the boomer kids believed it. Although big dangers loomed everywhere – the H-bomb and radioactive clouds that got into your milk – it appeared that the concept of justice extended as far as Einstein’s universe.
The big action hero for the boomers was Superman, a nearly supreme power who took reason and judicious restraint to the limit before taking tough action. Even his human familiars risked their lives just to be fair and typically shot only to graze the gun-totting hand of the evildoer – giving umpteen chances for redemption. Curiously, Superman also happened to belong to a good-doing group called The Justice League, which sounds to me suspiciously like a judicial tribunal.
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