Yes, it's not ideal, it could be dangerous, someone could launch nuclear missiles by mistake.
But the reality is that we live in an imperfect world, where imperfect things can and do happen all the time, and we have to deal with them. You can't have a rule for everything; when you do, nothing can get done because the rule makers can't anticipate everything, and often get the things they DID think about wrong (rule making is remarkably similar to program design, with the same drawbacks and limitations).
So our imperfect world demands that we exercise our own judgment in deciding what to do. If you don't trust your developer's judgment, you shouldn't put them in charge of things that can cause a lot of damage. The alternative is a rule for everything, which is guaranteed to collapse under its own bureaucratic weight.
> The alternative is a rule for everything, which is guaranteed to collapse under its own bureaucratic weight.
That's an important point that's too often missed. There's a cost to creating rules, maintaining them in a list of rules somewhere, and having people actually read the whole list and apply those rules to real situations, handling appeals processes when you discover something that the rules handle badly, etc. You need some rules, but the can't ultimately fix the need to trust people.
But the reality is that we live in an imperfect world, where imperfect things can and do happen all the time, and we have to deal with them. You can't have a rule for everything; when you do, nothing can get done because the rule makers can't anticipate everything, and often get the things they DID think about wrong (rule making is remarkably similar to program design, with the same drawbacks and limitations).
So our imperfect world demands that we exercise our own judgment in deciding what to do. If you don't trust your developer's judgment, you shouldn't put them in charge of things that can cause a lot of damage. The alternative is a rule for everything, which is guaranteed to collapse under its own bureaucratic weight.