So, this is the way it works, is it?
Captains can do whatever they like, first officers cower in the right hand seat putting up with all sorts of nonsense for the first part of their career until they get promoted to the exhalted position of captain at which point they can do whatever they like and their own first officers have to cower in the right hand seat putting up with all sorts of nonsense until they get promoted....and so on and on.
I cannot believe - perhaps simply don't wish to believe - that airlines foster a culture of laissez faire and cover your arse. Are you all seriously trying to tell me that the industry is in such a state that a first officer (someone who, I'd quite like to think, is well educated, professional and with more than a couple of brain cells to rub together) would be too intimidated to report serious breaches of SOPs and of the law? Do they really run the risk of dismissal for dealing - professionaly - with someone who endangers the aircraft?
You're all having a laugh. Must be.