Not sure if that was aimed at me, Keg, but I've never said I'm in support of fully automated aircraft - in fact, I'm a Boeing rather than Airbus man given the choice, but that doesn't stop me weighing up the merits and trying to see the debate from all angles.
As I said in an earlier post, part of the automation argument is a balance of risks - how you weight your QF32s (aircraft saved by the pilots) against your AF447s (aircraft destroyed by the pilots).
The other issue frustrating me here is that many seem to be using the current state of the art in making a call, rather than understanding that for fully automated aircraft to exist, you'd have to have far greater redundancy within the automation, as you don't have pilots to fall back on.
I don't think we'll see fully automated aircraft or even single pilot airliners this century, but I'm very interested in making sure I understand the debate as like most on here, my future depends on it!