> The punishment for just being bad at your job should be getting fired, not jai...

OvidNaso · on April 23, 2015

You really want the surgeon who is only doing his best due to fear to be operating on you?

None of those listed professions at any time motivate their training due to fear of imprisionment. It is a complete non factor and it's only effect is to shovel more pain and tragedy on already tragic situations to the illusion of relief for a small porportion of the parties aggrevied.

EliRivers · on April 24, 2015

You really want the surgeon who is only doing his best due to fear to be operating on you?

I don't care why he's doing his best. It would be nice if he was doing his best because he's a dedicated professional, but doing his best out of fear is far better than being operated on by some slacker not giving their best.

So the answer to your question is yes, please, I want the surgeon who is doing his best; not the one who is slacking.

temuze · on April 23, 2015

Or building a bridge.

Or coding software for medical machines.

Or being a pilot or a bus driver.

Or construction.

schwap · on April 23, 2015

> Or coding software for medical machines.

I don't believe anybody was arrested for the Therac-25[1] accidents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

AnimalMuppet · on April 23, 2015

I know of people who have been arrested. They were upper management, though, not engineers. They tried to ignore the FDA, and they got walked out in handcuffs. (This was not in relation to Therac-25.)