I hope this will never be a sticky, as it appears most people are lining up to give your views a good shoeing - which they thoroughly deserve. The approbrium which you are attracting to yourself is best forgotten, wouldn't you agree?
I mean, let's get this straight - you jump into a thread which has the benefit of not only FL's input, but that of a man whose career was seemingly wrecked by his actions, yet served his debt to society, redeemed his position, obtained a pardon, and has been an inspiration to many others. You were admonished for looking for a problem which doesn't exist - and then came here.
In the meantime, you endear yourself to the engineers who keep aircraft running on another thread, which should have been entitled: "Mummy, I saw flaky paint near the engine! We're all going to die!". Wasn't that fun?
The pilots who fly aircraft have to compete aggressively, study assiduously and work dam' hard to keep these fragile pieces of aluminium in one piece. They have to stay fit enough to retain their jobs and sane enough to have some sort of life outside of them. Their companies test them, time and time again, how they'd react in situations which would leave the rest of us sitting in a puddle of brown goo.
Your careless assertion that because a few people - and they are humans, after all - succumb, and that therefore everybody else has to be treated as though they are a priori suspect, is an immense insult to the hard work that pilots have put into their careers. Moreover, your dismissal of the tremendous efforts of people who have been affected by alcoholism to abjure, and then overcome it, is a frankly disgusting display of your attitude towards other people.
I despair that you have so little faith in the people who guide these tin cans through the sky - but if you are that worried, I'll happily wager 1000GBP at 100/1 that neither you nor your mother will come to grief because of an intoxicated pilot over the next year (but you can get better odds at Ladbroke's).
BOFH