The popularity of such phrases as "stupid people shouldn't breed" seems to be correlated to the degree which the rest of society is punished for the once-upon-a-time actions of stupid people. Stupid people aren't really a big problem if you're not using them to set the lowest common denominator by which you treat everyone.

I think a lot of older school Americans have a real justice boner and justice in their mind is often eye for an eye. At least this feels true about the older, right-leaning generation I know. Justice in the US, traditionally, seems a lot more punitive than rehabilitory. I think that has fizzled off in the more recent generation and some policy is already starting to reflect that, i.e. marijuana laws and releasing people for that crime early.

Source: Am American.

This is exactly what I worry about. Part of Liberty is actually using it. It's where the whole "home of the brave" thing comes in.

When people are by default free to do things... Yeah. You have to be willing to keep an eye out. And I do not ascribe to the school of thought that anything that creates a condition of "unsafety" should necessarily be controlled until it becomes an established regular thing that cannot be ignored. That's a road we already know ends up with no one having any room to do anything because you can dlways find someone who'll get their knickers in a twist about it.

The shocking part here is the video evidence of just not giving a damn, and not being genuinely "in the task" of being a responsible airman.