Yeah, way to quote out of context. "Most doctors (especially surgeons, etc.), along with firefighters, police, etc. derive their respect in "educated circles"

Yeah, way to quote out of context. "Most doctors (especially surgeons, etc.), along with firefighters, police, etc. derive their respect in "educated circles" not from their pay (that's some of the worst nonsense I've heard this week) but from the kind of work that they do: saving other people's lives, esp" Ah yes, the 'everybody deserves a medal' mentality. Let's not forget the garbage man, without whom we'd be choking on our own garbage! Praise his selfless sacrifice! In the mean time here in the real world, those firefighters and policemen you talk about are (in the case of firemen) replaced with volunteers, and paid a very basic wage (yes yes because of political/union dynamics some of that group in some US states are paid well with early retirement yadda yadda yadda - I'm talking in general). Way to show status and respect, society! In the mean time you're spinning a straw man of how I supposedly look down upon doctors, where my actual point is that doctors aren't that special intellectually speaking. Most people reading this could be doctors if they wanted to. Does that mean we look on them? No. But it does mean we don't put them on some pedestal as if they're so smart - which is what used to happen when the majority of people had no or very little education.