> The punishment for just being bad at your job should be getting fired, not jail.
You should keep that in mind next time you get surgery. :-)
You should keep that in mind next time you get surgery. :-)
None of those listed professions at any time motivate their training due to fear of imprisionment. It is a complete non factor and it's only effect is to shovel more pain and tragedy on already tragic situations to the illusion of relief for a small porportion of the parties aggrevied.
I don't care why he's doing his best. It would be nice if he was doing his best because he's a dedicated professional, but doing his best out of fear is far better than being operated on by some slacker not giving their best.
So the answer to your question is yes, please, I want the surgeon who is doing his best; not the one who is slacking.
Or coding software for medical machines.
Or being a pilot or a bus driver.
Or construction.
I don't believe anybody was arrested for the Therac-25[1] accidents.