Don't displace responsibility away from the people who have both the responsibility and authority to get those flights off the ground on time. Your argument is a slippery slope that leads to blaming the pilot group for every single thing that could possibly go wrong, simply because if we acted outside the contract we *might* have been able to make up for someone else's deliberate choice to put the company at risk.

Don't go there. This is a line that can't be casually crossed with a flippant scornful lecture about how people could go outside the contract to fix problems caused by the people with the actual authority and responsibility to prevent them in the first place. That leads to all sorts of idiotic finger pointing, hurts our day to day operatoins, and makes the next contract harder to negotiate, not easier.

That said, effort level is always a personal decision and I think most of us will hustle when necessary to keep the operation going smoothly. That's completely different from trying to shame a pilot into going outside the contract to fix a problem that was knowingly caused by scheduling.