[solenoid0937]

Oh, I agree it's a severe flaw of character that makes one unfit for duty. But flawed humans are what we have to work with! If the airline industry had a proper safety net around disclosing mental illness, we'd have fewer pilot murder-suicides. Are pilots that would do that severely flawed and unfit, maybe even evil? Definitely.

But our objective is to save lives, and to do that we have to identify those pilots, and to identify those pilots they have to be comfortable disclosing.

Essentially, I agree with you that these humans are deeply flawed, and my concern is also with everyone else. All I am saying is that more lives are saved with disclosure versus without. Avoiding punitive measures may let people who "don't deserve it" get away, but the disclosure you get in return saves hundreds to thousands more innocents.