Buttman wrote:


The slippery slope is in the fact that any accident is caused by a string
of deliberate decisions made by the pilot.

Understood.

You can always argue that the pilot could have done /this/ differently,
or /that/ differently and the accident could have been avoided.

And that's totally different than knowingly and willfully violating a
limitation or rule, and then suffering the results that the limitation
or rule is designed to prevent.