Originally Posted by Gabriel

I have noticed this, and it does disturb me. Lawyers serve an important function in society, and while many of them are famously unethical many of them are courageous and generous individuals who dedicate themselves to serving their communities. I would venture a guess that there would be a lot fewer engineers without intellectual property lawyers and we would all be a lot worse off without our much derided judicial system. Now, I don't think I would ever be a lawyer, but I don't think that its right for Dean to be bashing lawyers, I know for a fact that he employs quite a few, and many, many lobbyists to boot. What's wrong with saying "don't be a weasel?" instead of "don't be a lawyer?"

There are good people and bad people in every profession. Einstein was a scientist, but so was Josef Mengele, Usama Bin Laden is an engineer, so lets try to to keep a little perspective.