Shall we fire all the bus-drivers and train operators too that have families and that may be headed for divorce?
If anything this will lead to planes being flown by remote control or using autonomous computers. Pilot is one of those jobs that carries some degree of respect from non-pilots because we trust our lives to them and expect them to infallibly do what's right. When an idiot decides to murder close to 150 innocents that were entrusted to his responsibility that will harm the whole institution of flight and all his colleague pilots as well.
But let's not go overboard and fire all the pilots that could be at risk of divorce, most people are perfectly normal, madmen are the exception.
Philip writes for his regular readers, and that was almost certainly intentionally absurd.
He's an "if-this-then-that" sort of rhetoricist. If this absurd thing is considered socially acceptable, then obviously this even more absurd thing which logically follows should be acceptable too.
He's working on a book about the travails of family law. He quotes from the book and the research extensively. He's deeply opposed to the calamities that are legally imposed on non-custodial parents. This would be one more thing on that list.
If anything this will lead to planes being flown by remote control or using autonomous computers. Pilot is one of those jobs that carries some degree of respect from non-pilots because we trust our lives to them and expect them to infallibly do what's right. When an idiot decides to murder close to 150 innocents that were entrusted to his responsibility that will harm the whole institution of flight and all his colleague pilots as well.
But let's not go overboard and fire all the pilots that could be at risk of divorce, most people are perfectly normal, madmen are the exception.