Remember, the MEL
permits you to take the aircraft, it does not
require you to do so. I just find it lacking in professional courtesy to berate someone without knowing the facts. Just off the top of my head, what about the Met. Maybe flight below 10K was going to leave the aircraft flogging through icing close to the 0 degree isotherm. Or maybe the MEL time limit was exceeded. Maybe it had been out for 10 days and then miraculously 'tested and found serviceable" only to "fail" again on the following trip. The point is as soon as you get into multiple MEL items, especially if one is a biggy like pressurisation, you are rapidly moving into the realms of the 'less safe'.
From time to time I have declined to accept an aircraft inspite of the MEL.
tell the ops guys to fly it themselves, oh but they cant because they have not got a license and fly a desk
QFT