Ok, the banter on guns was more or less standard society dribble on guns in the U.S.
As I read through there I started to think about it a little differently. There are some people driving hundreds of thousands of pounds of metal and people around at 500 kts who seem to feel that there obligation to minimize death as a pilot is somehow limited.
So my question is where do you think PIC ends? Where are your moral obligations? How can you justify not taking simple steps to ensure that when bad things happen the fewest possible people die?
Not only should you be willing to kill one to protect many, you should ensure your best possible chance of being able to do so. Stay in shape, learn to fight, demand weapons. Be ready to do your part. How in the **** can you justify doing any less? Your politics do not prevail over your moral reponsibilities. If they do stop flying.
So I thought of a couple of questions I'd love to hear people weigh in on:
1. Engine out, lighted highway with traffic, black to either side. You are the only one on board. Where do you land? Even if you will only kill one other person, where do you land?
2. Cockpit about to be penetrated by terrorists, what do you do?
3. Gun held to your head at beginning of takeoff. You are the only chance of getting plane airborn. What do you do?
If you don't make the choice to protect the largest numbers you have no business even driving a car, much less a heavy jet. If you can't take the responsibility for administering leathal force in the protection of others you have zero business flying.
As I read through there I started to think about it a little differently. There are some people driving hundreds of thousands of pounds of metal and people around at 500 kts who seem to feel that there obligation to minimize death as a pilot is somehow limited.
So my question is where do you think PIC ends? Where are your moral obligations? How can you justify not taking simple steps to ensure that when bad things happen the fewest possible people die?
Not only should you be willing to kill one to protect many, you should ensure your best possible chance of being able to do so. Stay in shape, learn to fight, demand weapons. Be ready to do your part. How in the **** can you justify doing any less? Your politics do not prevail over your moral reponsibilities. If they do stop flying.
So I thought of a couple of questions I'd love to hear people weigh in on:
1. Engine out, lighted highway with traffic, black to either side. You are the only one on board. Where do you land? Even if you will only kill one other person, where do you land?
2. Cockpit about to be penetrated by terrorists, what do you do?
3. Gun held to your head at beginning of takeoff. You are the only chance of getting plane airborn. What do you do?
If you don't make the choice to protect the largest numbers you have no business even driving a car, much less a heavy jet. If you can't take the responsibility for administering leathal force in the protection of others you have zero business flying.
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