[It can be. It depends on why you're being nice in the first place.]

Sometimes justice requires seeking out things you shouldn't know but are obligated to find out anyway; there's something to be said about not being reckless, but sometimes it's just as reckless to remain blissfully unaware.

[...well, it's nice to know that even the disgraced attorneys still adhere to bizarre idealism-based statements like that, I guess.]