What we are explaining is why excessive running hurts game play,the community, and the game. What are asking is for those who run to maybe explain it. They can't. You and FLS keep defending their "right" to run, without explaining the rationell for running. If there is a good reason, I could be persuaded to respect it, and the player. So far no such case has been brought forth. Neither by you or FLS.
Would like to actually explain it? 
Ok, I'll take the proverbial whack at it. While I'm not generally inclined to run from a somewhat fair 1v1, I'm sure most of you guys would consider my MA style timid depending on the situation you ran into me on.
Usually I log in, find the biggest red bar dar I can, and up far enough away from it to get there with alt. Simply put, my goal when I fly is to push the enemy around airspace. I'm there to stop them from moving forward, hit the bombers/heavy fighters that are trying to degrade our capabilities, and kill as many aircraft as I can pretty much in that order. Stopping the advance goes hand in hand with hitting bombers most of the time.
I like to land my kills. Has precisely nothing to do with my name in lights. Why do I do it then? Because it means I did my job and survived to go home. Anybody can go into a crowd and shoot at anything that comes into range and rack up some kills until they're picked. Sure, it takes skill to survive for a long while doing it. Only an idiot would say otherwise.
To me, playing that way is essentially not caring whether you live or die. Constantly putting yourself in situations where you're inevitably going to get shot down to me is little different from taking a HO shot. If you HO enough people, you're eventually going to die. If you dive into a big enough crowd of red, you're eventually going to die. Same difference.
Where I get my jollies is trying to figure out how to kill some of them and get away with it, rather than going down in a blaze of glory. If I am not thinking of my exit strategy, it takes 3/4 of the tension away from the fight, because I don't have to worry about getting out of the situation I'm in.
There are pretty much 4 situations that will get me to get out of dodge:
1) 3 or more bandits with E are looking my way and I have no help.
2) Low fuel.
3) Low ammo.
4) Missing enough control surfaces or have taken enough damage to make me ineffective. Usually some combination of ailerons and rudder.
I hope that makes some sense.
Wiley.
