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Sure, I get that not all lawyers are scum -- though I do know a few that fit the very description I gave. But the point is more that you can find less 'noble' examples of people in massive debt, which may alter opinions on the subject. The article chooses to use a specific outlier to make the case more persuasive/concerning.
Like another thing I'd be curious about is the variance in debt levels between professionals who train at "regular" schools/colleges, and ones who train at "elite" schools like Harvard or MIT or whatever's good down there these days. The impression I get as an outsider to the US system, is that the costs vary wildly between different tiers of schools -- and that it's entirely possible to get a decent career (middle class) even without a top tier school education. I'd suspect then that there's a tranche of people who are going in to massive debt attempting to go to these more expensive options, without good reason for doing so -- but it's the individuals choice, at the end of the day.
And contrary to what some folks seem to think on here, an 18 year old is an adult in most countries, as far as I know. They're old enough to be accountable for their actions. They can vote and all that. And these folks are often mid 20s by the time they get out / have fully accumulated their debt -- so even more 'old enough'. As long as they have 'options' to choose from, I find it questionable that people choosing the highest/most expensive options should be given the biggest break.
It'd make more sense to me to regulate the hell out of your schools, and have government enforce things like tuition caps for American citizen under grads etc -- rather than have a kind of manic approach to debt forgiveness that flips every four years, which turns education affordability into a lottery. University endowment funds are a fairly clear argument for clipping those institutions wings a bit, and forcing them to give a break to the students. Heck, even here in Canada where we cap tuition, some of our universities have absurd amounts of money stockpiled.