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We don't address people by their job title here, and we'd laugh in your face if you insisted on it.
Perhaps a small exception for 'doctor', but that's acknowledging the doctorate, not the job.
I find using doctor without a medical degree to be, I dunno, crass. Its the old. IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE. Im a doctor. thank god can you help this man. of philosophy.
Eh, you earn the title by doing your thesis and expanding humanity's sphere of knowledge a little bit. Medical doctors may claim it but they don't get exclusive rights to it just because they want it.
oh sure. not saying they earned it but I find the ones who get one and actually want to use the title to be folks I don't vibe as well with. I do tend toward academia though so there is professor in that case.