[confidantlake]

In an ideal world yes, but in the real one they are just normal people like you and me. Some are good, some bad, some in the middle. My personal experience has been the overwhelming majority have been kind, intelligent people. But even if 5% are bad, that is still enough for any despotic regime to make use of.

[motohagiography]

I would agree with the small minority argument, but it still understates their impact. They aren't like you or I either, because when you spend an extra decade in school, their life experiences are essentially alien to people outside it. Cops are similar, where at a point, you have to ask how good the rest of a closed loop and gated network could be if they haven't isolated the worst ones. Doctors as a profession lost a lot of public trust over the pandemic because of the few who gave up their integrity to become political actors, and then the colleges punished doctors who stood up to them. The problem is that the 5%-bad minority just happen to be in the professional governance and administration, similar to how police union/associations were responsible for the worst abuses.