If it's a mature product, you should be able to pick it up and rattle it without it breaking. If it's still maturing, then maybe the odd shock here and there will prepare it for maturity?
It's true that the system must be tolerant to these sorts of faults, but that doesn't mean we have a right to stress it. The margin for error is not infinite, and by consuming some of it we increase the likelihood of errors going undetected for longer.
Sometimes it will be worth it anyway, and I don't have an opinion about this Wikipedia example, but I think it's pretty uncontroversial that the Linux example was out of line.
Sometimes it will be worth it anyway, and I don't have an opinion about this Wikipedia example, but I think it's pretty uncontroversial that the Linux example was out of line.