What about sleep deprivation? Studies have shown that a person suffering from lack of sleep exhibits the same impairment as if they were drinking. How do they go about punishing a pilot who shows up with an hour of sleep?
Idealistically as long as a pilot can fly the aircraft with the necessary skill and alertness, then there shouldn't really be a problem. But you can't practically make a standard different for every individual pilot, so the limit they set is perfectly logical and the only real practical way of assuring a pilot is capable of flying an aircraft.
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