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>If the industry or the public wish to avoid that fate, they would have to come up with something in the middle: self-restraint (ha), or possibly a private cert
by Mirioron 8y ago
>If the industry or the public wish to avoid that fate, they would have to come up with something in the middle: self-restraint (ha), or possibly a private certification scheme like MPAA.
Sounds to me like you've accepted government tyranny as being the default. You also make it sound as though government intervention fixes all the problems - it doesn't. You STILL have to check whether the pilot is drunk before the flight and sometimes they still are drunk during the flight even with all of the regulations in the industry.
- matt4077 8y agoSounds to me like you have a problem with nuance: meat inspectors != tyranny, if only because they are widely accepted, and created & overseen by democratically elected governments. And either you never fly or frequently lie: there’s no chance they let you examine the pilot as a normal passenger on a commercial flight. Plus, being drunk was obviously just an example. Are you going to subject them to a three-day practical examination? And how are you going to provide tested pilots conducting those exams, without being lost in the recursion of your little populist fantasy?