Their legal references were garbage — I forwarded it to the general counsel I employ at my business so he could have a laugh. There are clearly no lawyers among those whiny liberal arts majors. Also, your self-important appeal to the idea that you “create” professionals is also laughable — the system is screwed and you are part of that screwed up system. Professionals make themselves. You are a stone on their path that they have to exert considerable effort to push out of the way in order to proceed with their life plan, because society has condition them to believe that a degree is required in order for one’s life to have meaning or success or happiness.

You are a cog in a for-profit machine that only masquerades as anything else. Get back to me when your employers stop ripping off students on tuition, and getting into exclusive, overpriced contracts with book publishers that require students to pay exorbitant prices for something that they may not even use, then you might have some moral ground to stand on as an “educator”.

Also, yes, I forgive doctors who mess up if it’s not malicious — medicine is a practice, and people die due to unintended mistakes despite best intentions all the time. If I sue the doctor, it’s merely a matter of formality, and I’m not suing him, I’m suing his malpractice insurance company. That’s how it works. I would forgive a lawyer who messed up — in fact that might even be helpful, since there is a system in place to appeal a case based on ineffective counsel. And I put up with other professionals who mess up sometimes. I put up with it all the time, because I employ people and because I understand what it is to be human, and I understand that no human is perfect. Owning a business requires that kind of patience — you’d think that you’d understand that, but I guess teaching is more of a dog-eat-dog industry where nobody is capable of forgiveness or patience with their colleagues and they’re all simply scrabbling for that next prestigious post upgrade — gotta get it before that other professor does, you know?

You seem to believe that you are perfect and never mess up in a way that will cause someone (or a group) to have it out for you. Putting your mild case of narcissism aside, I hope and pray that you are fired and your career is ruined the next time you make a mistake or social faux pas that makes someone feel bad. I feel that that is the only way you will truly understand what I am trying to communicate here.