ray - I appreciate our jobs are completely incomparable. I have many good friends who are flight crew and not in a million years could I put up with the responsibility, workload and schedules they do, but that's why they get paid the big bucks
Agree that fatigue is a serious issue and also agree that the rules are there as a limit, not a target but sadly the big bosses want to see everyone working as hard as they can for their money, rarely caring about any possible consequences