Quoting Confucius to avoid answering a simple question is Sophistry, not revealing ancient wisdom.

Let’s do a what if:

What if a NMB mediator came to the conclusion that since senior pilots at an airline believe $57 an hour is an appropriate price for newbies there versus say $82 an hour at SWA, the pilot group itself had defined their worth as $57/82 or about 70% of that of the SWA newbies, that it would be appropriate to hold all pilots at that airline to 70% of the corresponding SWA payscale.

Would that strike you as reasonable? Or better yet, if your management made that argument to the NMB? Would you agree with it?