>They got rid of the only people that, assuming it was your error, wouldn't have made it twice. In some traditional legal systems, if an object causes a death,

>They got rid of the only people that, assuming it was your error, wouldn't have made it twice. In some traditional legal systems, if an object causes a death, an anthill for example, the aggrieved family may put the object on trial. If the antill is found "guilty" it's destroyed. This is true for a car, a bat, an appliance whatever. The object doesn't need to be defective or inherently dangerous, just assigned blame. Companies can be similar to this, especially at the executive level.