Perceptions

Car salesperson, advertiser, lawyer, congressional leader, business executives and newspaper reporters. What does this unlikely list have in common? They are the nations nation's <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/12/15/build/business/45-poll.inc" target="_blank">least-trusted professions</a> according to a new survey. I don't do surveys at all but I would be curious to know if these professions were picked off a list or people came up with them on thier own. While I might not like many of them, the only one on this list that may have credence is the car salesman. Not a lot of trust in them from my corner.<br />n<br />nThen I question why newspaper reportes are on the list. Why not TV broadcast reporters? I would trust a print reporter over a broadcast professional any day but I do think they all are ethical in what they do so I don't see why they made the list. I have been beating my head against the wall ever since i read this trying to think of a "profession" as a whole that I don't trust the ethics of. I have known enough good car salesmen that even if I consider car salesmen, I can't think of an entire profession that's unethical. All professions have people in them that lack ethics in them, but none are unethecal in total. Life just doesn't work that way. I guess everybody's perceptions are different and this just proves it.<br />n<br />n<b>Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. Bertrand Russell</b>