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by treesknees 1765 days ago
It's not gatekeeping when you're talking about life or death emergency medical care. Taking students out of school isn't a solution, it's an act of desperation.

If I have a private pilots license and the pilot of my commercial aircraft is incapacitated, sure I'm technically more qualified than the others on the aircraft to try to perform an emergency landing. But that doesn't mean American Airlines should be expanding their routes because I could land a plane.