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I'm not sure how their being test pilots makes it any less horrible for them to be stuck somewhere for months when it was only supposed to be eight days.
Do test pilots not find being separated from their children as sad a thing as everyone else who has children? I am guessing, in general, test pilots want to be with their children as much as most parents do.
I'm not sure how you think this is horrible?
No seriously, I think there is a foundational difference between our perspectives here that is going to be really hard for you to overcome. For you, this situation would be awful. You've made that very clear. For me, and I am being 100% honest here, I would trade places with them in a heartbeat, and if I didn't my family would never forgive me. My father might never speak to me again if he found out I'd turned down an opportunity like that, my partner might leave me. No, I really mean it.
There are different people in the world. The kind of people that become test pilots have families that have to have accepted the incredible danger inherent to the job. Astronauts are in the same situation. Imagine what it must be like to love an astronaut test pilot. That would be incredibly stressful, and I would be nothing short of thrilled that this was not a worse disaster.
Sorry... you think their kids would hate them if they turned down an eight-day trip to space that ended up lasting months?
"I wish I spent months without my mom/dad" is generally not something kids who aren't in abusive relationships think.
Do you even have any kids?
Why are you being so combative about this? Not understanding how people could be at peace with this is disappointing, sure, but you're endlessly trying to escalate this. Picking out one argument to attack from a stack of reasoned explanations, wholly ignoring the response to your last objection in favor of a new one that exaggerates the arguments made, approaching every new comment with a constant shifting of the goalposts.
“I wish I spent months without my mom/dad” is blatantly re-framing my comment from the context it was presented and which it is relevant to. But to respond: Personally, speaking as a once and future child, I would not be wishing to have 'spent months without' with my parent. But if their fear of potentially being deprived of my presence stopped them from going to space, I would be absolutely furious with their selfishness, and if they went on this mission I would be proud beyond my ability to express, of them and their work. And I would be terrified for them. But fear is a natural response that fades with practice, and although I would miss them, knowing they were safe and doing what they chose to do would be reassurance enough to last me eight months, even if I couldn't speak to them.
Oh for fucks sake, thank you. I've got terrible insomnia right now and the username absolutely did not register.
I guess it's uncivilized to point out reocurring behavior of other users?
Well, I was going to respond to this, but apparently you hate me based on your response to someone else, so I guess there's no reason to continue this.
Lmfao dude I don't hate you, had I realized it was you I just would have used a different approach.