[Bluntpoint]

If accountants had the same mentality as lawyers, they could hire themselves out to the highest bidder and argue all day for their client that 2 + 2 = 3.

[Bluntpoint]

If obstetricians had the same mentality as lawyers, they would offer to deliver your child for 1/3 of his/her future earnings.

[Kevin Curry]

If accountants had the same mentality as lawyers, they could hire themselves out to the highest bidder and argue all day for their client that 2 + 2 = 3.

How about the Enron accountants who argued 2+2=$111 million?

I believe your criticism of lawyers is well-placed, but I wouldn't hold accountants up as paragons of objectivity either.

[Brian Allen]

<< If accountants had the same mentality as lawyers, they could hire themselves out to the highest bidder and argue all day for their client that 2 + 2 = 3 >>

If accountants had the same mentality as lawyers and hired themselves out to the highest bidder and argued all day for their client that 2 + 2 = 3 -- wouldn't we call them "psychologists."