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Did I say that?
Or did YOU say that.
I merely made an example of prototypical profession that requires exhaustive effort, dedication, and commitment to something greater than oneself, which includes the threat of death. Fighting for a contract is not the same as fighting for your country. There simply isn't a comparison. An equivalency would require you to break the law, unless you happen to have a license to kill. Sorry but braving the NY cold is not bravery. Wearing lanyards or luggage grips is not bravery. Bravery is not a function of being "better", it's a function of doing something greater than oneself when many others will not. You wouldn't be online right now had lots of American soldiers not died in WWII. I remind you that Japan and Nazi Germany were formidable enemies. But I will say this, you should have respect for people who have done things in life that you may not have. Think of a fire fighter who has run into a burning building to save a life, of a missionary in a foreign country captured and tortured to death.
But to address your use of the word bravery... there can be many forms. Erin Brockavitch is brave, Martin Luther King was brave, Ben Shapiro is brave, Christians in the middle east being slaughtered are brave, Diamond and Silk are brave, Edward Snowden is really brave, the people run over by tanks in Tiennemen Square are really brave, and so on....
Bravery just doesn't largely exist with the sheepish, beaten down, defeatist pilot group of BJ. 90% of BJ pilots ARE the problem because their attitude is so **** poor. They bend over and jump higher. Why is it that BJ didn't have a pilot ALPA group from Day 1? Did they FOOLISHLY believe that history wouldn't repeat itself despite there never being an exception to the rule?
Code Pink has more bravery than the average BJ pilot who have been wrong for 15+ years.
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I asked a question on how you value your own self worth. In which you didn’t say anything about it. A classic nothing fight really.
But I get it, you don’t value ALPA, your fellow pilots, or really it appears anyone in the matter.
What we have gathered is, that you enjoy passing judgment on other people. Believe that 90% of your peers are more or less scum and are responsible for all the problems here, And that ALPA is doing nothing.
Further more, you’ve now informed everyone here, that your fellow peers at jetBlue are not brave, having no further information on their background, what they have done in life or what adversities he or she has overcome in life.
Continuing on, the guys, you know the ones who bravely fought in WW2? Protecting our freedom? My godfather for example. Yeah those guys, I’d put my life on it that they wouldn’t vote NO, because their union (again having no control over that manual) didn’t have, “pilots shall never pick up trash” clause in it. I will put my life on it again, that those brave hero’s that you speak of, you know those ones, as you said “doing something greater than oneself when many others will not”.... yes those guys, I bet they would be the first ones to pick up that trash.
Get over yourself bro. Show some respect for the dudes that are working on your contract. You seem to be one of those guys who could have a billion dollars, the perfect family, a cute dog and a nice house, be healthy until your 105. But just miserable every day.
Btw. I do not clean planes. Just want to let you know that, it’s because I’m not brave enough to sick my hands in the pockets. Might be a dirty diaper in there.