[pibaker]

There are also life and death scenarios where being able to show a broken page saves lives. Imagine there is a storm coming in your area and the government website listing addresses of emergency shelters is barely loading because it is overloaded or because your phone signal is bad. Being able to just load and show half of the page's html content is still better than nothing.

[gershy]

I think anyone of sufficient intelligence can devise an argument to frame anything in life-and-death terms.

Doesn't error tolerance promote developer habits that could lead to complete downtime? During which lives could be lost? Don't our current standards result in more churn of physical hardware? Which winds up in garbage dumps in poor countries? On fire, with toxic fumes? Being picked over by labourers, breathing it in? And losing their lives early?