Agreed Joe le Taxi.
I wasn't referring to individual cases, just expressing my concern that some forumites call proffessional pilots idiots for choosing to visually manouvre their aircraft. In the case of being IMC then "visually" manouvreing (self positioning) below MSA certainly isn't appropriate.
I just hate to see legislation real or imagined precluding proffessional using their proffessional judgement.