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What gut feeling? the comment is arguing towards engineering, not towards homeopathy.

If you have to analyze the weighing of costs and benefits, you are showing there is one point were you will consider safety too expensive, or some acceptable accidents (as long as it is not someone you love) in the long term.




> you are showing there is one point were you will consider safety too expensive, or some acceptable accidents

Yes. This is engineering. You can’t engineer to infinite safety without infinite cost.


Life is cheap, we know, but it sounds more like the board will receive a bonus increase, not like engineering.




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