N1 Vibes,
In ACMSs defence it's a bit hypocritical of you to join a pilot's forum where the dominant topic is industrial and union matters and then post;
you have just revealed what was becoming quite clear. You are a member of a union that 'represent's' X thousand pilots, in a company of Y thousand people. Your loyalty to the X thousand strong pilots union is not in question, what would have shown your humanist side a lot better, was if you as an individual were looking for an equal payrise for the whole company - the Y thousand people, not just your own group.
This isn't really a forum about the meaning of life and everything that accompanies it. Granted everyone plays their part in an airline, but be careful about being a non pilot joining a pilot's forum and then berating someone on the forum because of their opinion that is solely an issue amongst airline pilots. In fact if you "belong to the human race" as you so elequently put it, why are you wasting your time on this forum?? You really should be helping the poor and needy on your spare time.