Roger,

If someone blindly accepts argument by authority, one might say they're
not fit for the decision-making process required of a pilot-in-command.

What? Our whole modern society is based on that.


Not at all. On merit, yes, possibly. On authority, i.e. status - no way. At
least not for a reasonably skeptical being. "I have more flight hours than
you so I'm right", "I am flight instructor, so I am right", "I am your boss
so I am right" - all don't work or shouldn't work.

As for "modern" society: Abiding by conventional wisdom would have
prevented Einstein, the Wrights, railways and much more that's part of
modern society.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)