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by zmgsabst 1246 days ago
Why would you do a barrel roll in a plane full of passengers, when you’re being paid to operate it safely?

Your entire hypothetical is unlike the actual scenario, where this is being recommended.

Of course you have different solutions to a completely different problem — but what you haven’t addressed is why this is a bad solution to this particular problem.

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nono, imagine you have a personal 1 seater plane

The presence of a backup option affects your decision making. Human brain assumes the backup is reliable. If you install some 50/50 backup, you put more people at risk

Right — that situation is completely unlike the actual one. Different situations reasonably have different constraints.

Why is imagining something completely different useful?