Nobody has remotely suggested the button is ever pressed"for fun" but surely it is a valid question why a few minutes loss of contact should incur such a wholly inflexible response. It seems there is no option to cancel even after it has become clear there is no threat..even sometimes if the interception hasnt taken place. There is a clear impression from some other posts that "someone has to pay". In practice this means the airline, even if the loss of contact wasn't their fault. Are we talking budgets rather than safety?