Unfortunately, the society we live in now encourages individuals to hide things, by virtue of the fact that revealing them will usually result in a right royal shafting, rather than a fair and compassionate hearing.
The jobsworth & holier than thou mentality displayed by some on here is merely a small indication of what one can expect nowadays in life if you "fess up". People want to remain in employment so masses of scary scary stuff is swept under the carpet.
As long as honesty is "rewarded" by being punished out of proportion to the crime commited (i.e. final result, the guy may well have lost his right to an airside passs & therefore his livelihood FOR LIFE
- I suppose the "holier than thous " think that is not out of proportion with what he did ?) it will remain like this.
And ,that is a MUCH bigger safety issue than someone coming to work with less impairement to his judgement than he would be suffering as he makes his last approach at the end of a long duty day at awful o'clock. But that is OK of course because he was operating within the rules/limits. the. Some compensation that is when you and the aircraft are dismembered on the final approach ground track or parked on some hillside.