Do you drive recklessly and avoid getting your brake pads replaced because "it's OK, I've got two independent backup safety mechanisms: seatbelts and airbags"?

Do you drive recklessly and avoid getting your brake pads replaced because "it's OK, I've got two independent backup safety mechanisms: seatbelts and airbags"? Backup safety mechanisms are not intended to allow you to operate the primary mechanism in a known unsafe state, they have a calculated reduction in failure likelihood based on the primary mechanism being in a working state, and those calculations go out the window if the primary mechanism is faulty.