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I never meant to say there's no such thing as negligence. Of course there is.

But it's also true that the threat of punishment works poorly as a deterrent also in that case, because if you think you can get away with flying the plane intoxicated, you likely also think you won't get caught. And the same processes that catch honest mistakes also work to catch less innocent ones.




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