There's two responses that spring immediately to mind: First, "what time is it?" There's lots of cases where a single centralized authority can provide defini

There's two responses that spring immediately to mind: First, "what time is it?" There's lots of cases where a single centralized authority can provide definite and concrete advantages. Second, ultimately, every system of authority (and note that I'm using the word in a very different sense now) is built on a foundation of a threat of death. And that kernel should be held at as much of a remove, as carefully controlled as is possible. Introducing "failover" regulators means that you now have multiple parallel columns of authority, and each basic threat of death needs it's own system of control. That strikes me as nightmarish.