Originally Posted by
Sunvox
My 2 cents:
Take this to the coffee shop with a $5 bill and get a cup of coffee. . . .
I work with people who made a decision almost 3 decades ago who are impacted by continuing prejudice. For me crossing a picket line is not unlike choosing Right to Life or not Right to Life. If you live next to me I'm not going to stop talking to you because you are a Right to Life believer. I will do my best to persuade you of the error of your thought, but I won't stop being your neighbor, and Heaven forbid a tornado runs through our neighborhood one day you are welcome in my bunker because we are both humans in the same society.
Sunvox...
Let me preface my 2 cents by saying I have concurred with the majority of your postings on this site. I must choose to disagree with you on this topic and your posting. Riddle me this. How would a person's position on a topic such as right to life have any impact on my career or my ability to provide for my family? In short, it wouldn't. These individuals you describe made decisions to benefit themselves, regardless of the effect on the concerted whole of the pilot group. Forget the company, forget the union. They turned their backs on their fellow pilots to benefit themselves. Period. There is a reason these individuals do not comprise the majority. Most have an ethical and moral compass. Some navigate life absent these tools. Your right, most of this took place many years in the past, but how many would choose the same path today? Funny that you mention a bunker. I liken these people's actions to abandoning his/her fellow combatants in that bunker/foxhole, leaving them to fight the battle and in the end boastfully wearing the same uniform. And while I, like you, would provide for that individual during the situation you mentioned, know that once the storm had passed that same ethical and moral compass that invited them in would ask them to leave. Just saying...