Teach me
Your post 46 shows remarkable restraint - totally to be expected given your interesting and well argued post 43.
My background in some development flying in Indonesia where all my cockpit actions were videoed as well as recorded in traditional ways, made me feel very secure that in the event the aircraft (or those in any way responsible for it) let ME down then I had the evidence to show it was not my fault.
In my view the weaker and less competent the airline management (and the more there is an adversarial attitude between crews and company) the more useful it is to have full and open recording of events in order to protect a competent crew.
JF