There is no issue with reading comprehension in this thread, just critical thinking and ability to understand core concepts. We support status quo, that is not an ask, an argument, or justification. The ask is changing status quo, thus the burden of argument is on those proposing the change.

We have been playing by the same rules on the playground for how long now? All of us together. Now a select minority want to change the rules they have been benefiting from for their entire career, to benefit even more at the cost of harming everyone else. It is not selfish or hypocritical to ask them to not screw us. To do the same as generations of pilots before them and hang the hat up when we all knew we would have to. (+5 years too!) To extend the same courtesy they were extended for decades. To pay it forward as it was paid forward to them.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in. What does it say when a small group refuse to plant any more trees? Disgusting.

Hiding behind a faint veil of agnosticism on the subject is not fooling anyone. As is your arguments that we do not hold the ethical, and I would also argue moral, high ground.