It does hold, in some form or other, in other professions. The EPA formally defines how much cash they're willing to burn to save a human life, which seen from

It does hold, in some form or other, in other professions. The EPA formally defines how much cash they're willing to burn to save a human life, which seen from one perspective is an "environment gonna kill people" cop out. Nuclear missile silos have two operators because "people gonna launch nukes". Cars have airbags because "vehicles gonna crash". Every field has risks and risk management, every field has certain steps that they could take for the purpose of safety that are judged too expensive to justify the risk, and part of managing risks in software is that you should plan for bugs and plan to mitigate their impact. Nobody calls the emergency services out because they assume cars are going to crash and plan accordingly, so why does the software engineering industry get called out for assuming software will go wrong and planning accordingly?