[miki123211]

> * Stop making reactive decisions. If something bad happened on a total, extremely unlikely lark, don't act like it's going to happen again next week.

I feel like everybody needs to internalize this one (and that notably includes governments and politicians), but it's a really hard problem to solve.

If something bad happened, people (whether that be higher-ups, journalists, lawyers or your constituents) expect you to do something about it. "yeah, a child just got raped on our property but we don't have to do anything about it, it probably won't happen again" is not an acceptable answer in most circumstances, even if it's the right answer.

[lysecret]

Yea Germany quitting all nuclear comes to mind…

[yard2010]

Bad example in my honest opinion: Merkel made me believe it's the "worst case scenario" kind of thing - same reason there shouldn't be capital punishment. If you can't afford to pay the price in the worst case scenario you shouldn't take the risk.

That being said, I believe failures and mistakes are simply part of our lives. I would turn the other way and run when someone says that he found the perfect system, in which there are no losses failures and problems. You are always limited by what you don't know you don't know.

[Cpoll]

> If you can't afford to pay the price in the worst case scenario you shouldn't take the risk.

Which probably precludes leaving your house (or staying in it, for that matter).

[Timwi]

I thought of that too, but also the US banning Kinder Surprise eggs.