Allow me to make a remark, without animosity but without complacency. Your competence in aeronautics may be remarkable; however, it does not elevate you as a measure of human value. Technical excellence is not a title of moral nobility. One can admire the rigor of a profession and, in the same breath, question its purpose: contributing to the war machine first calls for lucidity and modesty, not arrogance.

Whether it is defense engineering, surgery, teaching, or waste collection, no profession confers upon its practitioner a dignity superior to that of their interlocutor. To borrow a Kantian idea, a person does not have a price; they have value: one does not rank them according to salary, uniform, or the budgetary scope of their sector.

You are free to be proud of your expertise; but pride, without scrutiny, transforms into vanity. And vanity, even if adorned with prestigious logos, remains a weakness of the soul. The power of an aircraft does not increase the stature of those who boast about it; true greatness is measured by the ability to respect, listen, and engage in dialogue without humiliating.

If you wish to speak of merit, let’s talk: merit consists of fulfilling one’s role with awareness while remembering that, in front of oneself, one never has a trophy to dominate but a person to consider. So let’s return to a human level: you have your profession, I have mine, and we share the same dignity. The rest is just ego noise.