Let's make it clear: for unknown reasons pilots are very rarely sued and imprisoned in most jurisdictions even if they were a root cause of accident (90%+ of all accidents worldwide). Bus drivers, train drivers, truck drivers, ship captains are all doing the same job and they are indeed bearing full responsibility for their actions. In fact, ship captains, especially in the case of large ships, are bearing full responsibility even they are not a direct controls and in some cases even off-duty resting in their cabin. All of them a quite likely to serve a sentence in prison if found guilty.
All what pilots risk is their job? That's similar to McDonalds then...