In article , Bob Brock
writes:

I weighed the benefit of HF against conforming
with a requirement that I didn't agree with. I felt that by
participating I was helping it to continue.

How is participating in the test helping the requirement to continue?

There are a lot of hoops
that I would be willing to jump through to get HF privileges. Code
isn't one of them.

To each his own.

Call it a matter of personal ethics. Upgrading would have been the
easy way out.

Or consider this:

Which do you think is more convincing to FCC as a reason to remove Element 1:

- The person who says "I won't upgrade until that test is removed"

or

- The person who says "I took the test, passed it, yet I think there is no
reason for that test to exist any more."

73 de Jim, N2EY