>There is an additional rule I've heard expressed as "Place only
>limited trust in the safeties". You have to use them at times, but (as
>Gryphon's series has shown) you can't always trust them to work
>always.

This is often reformulated to make it more explicitly an extension of a more general rule of living: "Safeties are mechanical systems, and all mechanical systems can fail."

--G.
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