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Well, I don't respect, among other things:
* People who run telephone soliciting campaigns aimed at selling poor people or senior citizens insurance policies that don't pay except on lawsuit, and the people that write such policies. Or anyone who knowingly tries to sell a worthless product to the weak and/or ignorant.
* Lobbyists and lawyers and politicians with conditional loyalties: if you pay me, I'll do your job the way you want it and screw justice/the law/the people.
* Insurance executives who sell vaguely worded policies that allow them to not pay in the case of natural disaster -- even though the policyholder was assured he was "fully covered." Saw a Katrina special about that on CNN; they screwed so many people.
The thing is, these and many others like them are _legal jobs._ But in order to do them, you have to prey or misguide other people, albeit legally. If a person could do a job like that, why would I want to spend my life with them?
So baby seals or calves or bunnies aside, I'd avoid anyone who was successful in a profession or business that rewarded them for being ethically challenged, ruthless, or otherwise callous... for the very good reason that a person who could do that probably wouldn't be a very nice person at all.
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