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comment by wasoxygen
wasoxygen  ·  3447 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Downhill Slide of NASA's "Rocket to Nowhere"

    Nooo, you do not skimp on costs when human life is involved.

That is the easy answer. The best safety policy is to ground all vehicles and require all personnel to remain home at all times, preferably cowering under heavy furniture.

Any useful work entails some amount of risk, and even if the value of human life is not expressly valued, it is effectively valued by the amount of resources dedicated to safety versus getting the job done.