Pretty true. But that kind of like saying "politicians are going to take bribes, they are just people". There is the reason why some jobs are treated uniquely,

Pretty true. But that kind of like saying "politicians are going to take bribes, they are just people". There is the reason why some jobs are treated uniquely, and HR should be one of those jobs, as they have a disproportional amount of power and influence over other people's ability to find employment. In some countries those special professions are even marked as such in law, for example in Poland there exist a notion of a "public trust profession": "a profession that is a profession of high social importance, requiring appropriate qualifications not only professional and health, but also characterological, i.e. moral and ethical" I am not particularly keen to enshrine that notion in law, but we should not treat HR so flippantly.