Well said ITCZ.
Until you have looked out of a flight-deck window when your passengers ... in their hundreds...are beginning to file on to your aeroplane... and seen the families, mothers with babies and young children, old people going back to the mother country, suits, teenagers and young couples who have put their trust in your ability to handle anything that may crop up in the next X hours; then you have no real conception about what the job really entails.
Maybe Sunfish, when you reach for your next rant, you should remember that...