Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
Given the many nervous flyers out there, personally I think flight deck messages are important and reassuring.
Having said that, given that pilots often have more important things to do (like flying the aircraft) than talking to the passengers, the irony is that the nervous passengers (and all the other passengers and crew) would be better off with silence than with a PA that's unnecessarily distracting the pilots.
In other words, if things are busy then passengers should prefer being safer to being more reassured.