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Zardoz and Ed Blysard must be writing in a foreign language. You've completely glossed over their careful distinction between intentional neglect and unintentional neglect. No one will argue with you on intentional neglect. But you haven't proven that it happened. You haven't even a shred of evidence. You're presuming it. <br /> <br />But unintentional neglect -- or carelessness, whatever you want to call it -- is inevitable. Are you planning to fire yourself? Have you stopped driving forever because you once ran a stop sign? Or because you once sped 2 mph over the speed limit? Did you ever "forget" to signal? Those are all the same thing -- and while in traffic they might get you a ticket (if anyone's looking!) on a railroad they will ALWAYS get you fired, and most of the time, someone IS looking. You're holding railroaders to a standard of perfection that I seriously doubt you would ever dream of holding yourself. <br /> <br />I pray you never get your way. Because within six months, at the outside, you'd fire 100% of the employees at the railroad. After that, you could move onto health care and fire 100% of the doctors, paramedics, and nurses. Then into law and fire 100% of the cops, attorneys, jailers, judges. Then into mining: they're all gone. Also everyone in construction, steelmaking, airlines, shipbuilding, shipping, fishing, farming, and every other business where people can get killed by a small mistake. Employees in these lines of work all can -- and do -- make mistakes that are negligent and can kill someone. But they're much less forgetful and careless than you allege, and besides, systemic safeguards are built in. <br /> <br />People make mistakes. They're human. If you demand 100% zero-tolerance on mistakes, you cannot employ human beings. You can't even employ yourself. <br /> <br />OS
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