[pc86]

They're certainly done a lot of harm but also a lot of good. Regulations are written in blood.

[WalterBright]

Lives that would have been saved with innovative improvements are not accounted for.

[hef19898]

Because everybody can just pull out a number for those lives out of their noses, while lives lost are pretty easy to quantify.

The same goes for root cause analysis behind those lives lost, clear cut for actual losses, fuzzy for hypothetical losses.