I wonder why it isn't "Do librarians lose more ethics books?" After all, we don't know if it's ethicists stealing the books, or punk kids stealing the books, or

I wonder why it isn't "Do librarians lose more ethics books?" After all, we don't know if it's ethicists stealing the books, or punk kids stealing the books, or books getting disproportionately misplaced, or library assistants misfiling the books because they can't spell Nietzsche. Maybe the works of John Stuart Mill (off the charts in terms of missing) are tastiest to vermin. I don't think ethicists get paid on par with physicians or attorneys, and ethicists-in-training are likely disproportionately poor as a church mouse. An antique calculus text would not be in use in a modern college setting but ethics still likely uses the original editions. They can have their $250 copy of an ethics text back when the term is over. Or maybe I'll just hold on to it, since it looks so nice on the shelf, and why take the risk of getting busted returning it? Finally, the fact they're disproportionately missing to overdue suggests that some are being stolen then resold to ethicists, who perhaps are too ethical to borrow a book without returning it but not too ethical to buy a stolen version of same.