Poll: If you could erase any proffesion from society, which one would it be?

[Sewblon]

If you could cause any profession, all of its effects, and all of its knowledge to blink out of existence, which one would it be? I would eliminate marketing because of all the money it caused me to waste. The first one is supposed to say "Soldiering." Sorry.

 

[Rasputin1]

I'd probably get rid of politics.. Mainly 'cause I hate those guys.

 

[Tartarga]

Marketing. No more marketing, no more shitty commercials making me want to kill myself.

 

[rockingnic]

Let's get rid of the thing that makes people care whether something exists or not when they can just ignore it...

 

[Tourette]

All of the poll nominees are vital components of a society. We may not like them but we do need them, apart from prostitution but it is the oldest profession which does mean that they will always have a trade.

 

[Mockingjay]

What's wrong with prostitution? If some women have to do it, they have to do it. It's not something you grow up wanting to do but if you need money then what makes money better than sex. I hate people who talk about prostitutes as if they are lesser people. The people buying the sex are worse in my opinion.

 

[Mockingjay]

Double post my bad.

 

[Sewblon]

Let's get rid of the thing that makes people care whether something exists or not when they can just ignore it...

You can't ignore what politicians, law-enforcement officials, tax-collectors or marketing people do without isolating yourself from the rest of humanity. If you could they wouldn't be effective.

CEO of Activision.

Being that specific defeats the purpose of this thread.

 

[Marmooset]

Arms dealers, maybe?

 

[SimuLord]

I am absolutely delighted that there are many people out there who hate marketing executives as much as I do. They're the boil on the ass of a business school.

I wouldn't even call their work a "profession". It's monkey work and to elevate it to the same level as accountants, attorneys, and doctors (who go to actual "professional schools") is to insult real honest work.

(sorry Spinwhiz!)

 

[StBishop]

What's wrong with prostitution? If some women have to do it, they have to do it. It's not something you grow up wanting to do but if you need money then what makes money better than sex? I hate people who talk about prostitutes as if they are lesser people. The people buying the sex are worse in my opinion.

Do you know any prostitutes perhaps?

I voted other because I wouldn't want to remove any of these jobs, especially not the knowledge that they represent. Why destroy knowledge?

If I could remove a profession it would be slave traders.

But I would want to keep the knowledge that they have for the simple purpose of knowing what we need to prevent and avoid.

 

[nelsonr100]

Traffic wardens - just scum

 

[Sewblon]

What's wrong with prostitution? If some women have to do it, they have to do it. It's not something you grow up wanting to do but if you need money then what makes money better than sex? I hate people who talk about prostitutes as if they are lesser people. The people buying the sex are worse in my opinion.

I actually think it should be legal, but it can help spread STDs, so practical issues with it do exist.

What's wrong with prostitution? If some women have to do it, they have to do it. It's not something you grow up wanting to do but if you need money then what makes money better than sex? I hate people who talk about prostitutes as if they are lesser people. The people buying the sex are worse in my opinion.

Why destroy knowledge?

If information on how to do execute a profession, and the potential for profit from it still existed, it would probably return relatively soon. Eliminating the knowledge necessary to do it would mean that anyone who would take up the profession in question would need to spend the time and effort to rediscover all the "tricks of the trade" which would at least discourage it.

 

[Arsen]

Lawyers
Business individuals
Stock Market people
Creditors
Bankers

 

[Mockingjay]

What's wrong with prostitution? If some women have to do it, they have to do it. It's not something you grow up wanting to do but if you need money then what makes money better than sex? I hate people who talk about prostitutes as if they are lesser people. The people buying the sex are worse in my opinion.

Do you know any prostitutes perhaps?

I didn't vote because I wouldn't want to remove any of these jobs, especially not the knowledge that they represent. Why destroy knowledge?

If I could remove a profession it would be slave traders.

Yeah, a friend of mine. When she was fourteen her mother wanted to remarry. The problem was that the mother wanted to change the second name of her daughter to that of her fiance's (Smith). My friend is Japanese and was deeply proud of her second name and didn't want to break the connection off with her father (who was no longer interested in seeing her) so she ran away to London where she lived with some older friends. She needed to support herself financially however when she turned sixteen so she went into prostitution. It wasn't something she wanted to do originally obviously.