I don't think many comments here have much to do with knee jerk anything. 1000ft first got mentioned by Shy in this context..
Second point for possible discussion: Why is 1,000 feet above the nearest obstacle within 5 nms the "sacred figure" used for MSA?
So having prompted discussion why moan about it when it does?? I don't think I said anything about things legal or otherwise did I??
Its not illegal to drive you car into a wall at 70mph - you don't because you might have a personal rule that it would be dumb thing to do. etc etc.
Neither is it holier than thou, because it doesn't affect some of us one way other the other. Discussion is merely that and left there. What I do find curious is how a same old drum gets beaten, same old chippy comments, same old digs and yet as crab so accurately put it "people keep spanking them all over the place"..
So why is that? Why when some people ask a question its a discussion point, others its holier than thou??