Soddim
The US has two different types of fast jet pax flights: fam and incentive.
Fam rides are always of an operational nature and the pax are given to understand this prior to the sortie - these are the usual type of ride for journos.
Incentive rides are those earned by crew chiefs, cadets and other worthy individuals, and these are the ones where the pax gets to fly the jet and choose where to draw the line on manouvers and g loading.
Given the distinction between the two, and based on the fact that this guy was almost certainly being given a fam ride, I think that your comments are overly harsh.
In addition, I have heard of pax who have not even made it out of the circuit before they were sick, but you can hardly blame the pilot for being 'selfish' for that!