With the situation of offloading a passenger at the gate and before doors closed it is important to know who is responsible for the 'safe running' of the task.
As much as Bandalot has been rather antagonistic with comments such as " you must be a pilot" and the like, he has helped highlight the fact that some captains ( myself included) thought that they were responsible for the well being of the pax that had boarded the aircraft, and some thought that it was not their responsibility at all at that stage of the operation. So, we were/are left with a grey area as to WHO is responsible in this scenario. We all know that if a fire breaks out it is incumbent on the pilots to do certain things, but in the offload scenario, if it is not the P in C .....then who?
This should be a simple matter of looking to the regs for your own Airlines country, but it's not. That's the point of contention in my mind.