There is no system made by humans that cannot fail, and predictably will fail. Our control is never complete. Our plans, however carefully construed and implemented, always have weak spots.
Our best efforts to safeguard things is still our best hope. Our second best hope is to be humble enough to admit and accept that our best plans are always flawed. With this admission, our plan should be to monitor our safeguards constantly and repeatedly, and then find the weak spots, and shore them up effectively and immediately every time a crack in the dam is exposed.
That will still fail sooner or later, but the time of failure thus can be delayed for years.
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