I've had this discussion at lot too. My basic argument always ends up boiling down to "Don't make the software do anything you don't have a use for". If you wan

I've had this discussion at lot too. My basic argument always ends up boiling down to "Don't make the software do anything you don't have a use for". If you want to log something, you better have some sort of plan for how that line is going to be used, and a line in some stream somewhere has to be the best way to get that outcome. That's usually enough argument for people that I get to not have a logger statement in the catch. Frankly it's a religious thing. No one really wants to have the argument, and the best you can hope for is a sigh of defeat.