Who do you respect more, a bin man or a maths professor?

A maths professor...precisely the kind of guy I want in bed with me.

What a backwards, and frankly disgusting view.
'I care deeply about womens right, and their right to be treated as objects of value. Unless they do something I don't like, then they are like trash to me'

The only people who see women in strip clubs are men who go to strip clubs. Not children, not innocent people in the street. Being a stripper does nothing to devalue societies viewpoint.

All they 'build up' is the idea that women are free to do as they wish with their life. But given the absolute crap you spout all over this site, this is probably why you dislike it - afterall, who wants a wife with a mind of her own?

Question seems unfairly weighted, with the one identified by his title as at the top of his game and the other given only a generic title revealing nothing of his standing relative to his peers.

Should be "Bin Professor or Maths Professor?" to adjust for inteference.

Maths professor, there's no doubt about it. Ambition and intelligence are two traits we should be preserving as a species, not 'settling'. No doubt that bin men are essential for cleaning up our streets, but without the intelligent folk, who gives them the means to do so effectively (think rubbish compactors and so forth).

In a nutshell: both are necessary for functional society, but I regard people who have ambition higher than those who settle. After all, no one really aspires to be a bin man -- it's something you'd do when you're out of better options.

Who's to say that a binman doesn't have ambition? As you said, it's something you do when you don't have a better option. The maths professor might have been in that position at one point.

It sounds to me that you're just pairing intelligence with respect.

With all due respect, please read the OP.

- I am talking about the profession, not the people. If I could change the title I would, but I can't.
- You are not exactly the first people to say this.

As above, respecting an individual is not the same thing as respecting their profession.

They may have ambition elsewhere and I'd appreciate that, but that wasn't the scenario given.

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I wasn't referring to your post, it was a point addressed to the reply to my original post above...

I was clarifying that my disrespect for the profession is not the same as disrespect to the person. We're on the same side

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Answering purely the question. Just knowing the information given and nothing else - the proffesor. Only because I personally would respect his choices and proffesion more than the 'bin man' (really hate that term), as they are closer to where my values and aspirations lie

I know, I cringe slightly when I read this thread now, but I didn't think using 'bin man' would be a problem at the time. Waste disposal facilitator?

Thank you for your reply

It wasn't exactly suggested that the binman has no ambition either.

It's kind of a weird distinction. Maths has directly benefited society a lot more than garbage collection. Worst case you would have to drive rubbish to the dump yourself; without maths the industrial economy would be impossible.

If you mean "bin men give us a pay off now; maths professors in a few decades" then you have more of a point but this is a question of short term vs long term perspective, not benefiting society or not.

In my own humble opinion, a woman who goes to a club, takes her clothes of to the delight of men, thereby selling her body for money, only adds to society the notion that women are sex objects.

One woman does not represent everybody, but this is not simply one woman. Strip clubs are common, and mostly consist of women, and this trickles onto other elements of society, and how young women view themselves.

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