For example ....
My home was built in 1940. One could argue that it can't be TOO electrically deficient, having worked for this long.
That land mine buried in your front yard isn't dangerous, either. I mean, you still haven't stepped on it, so how dangerous can it be? - complacance is a very dangerous thing. Especially in our line of work.
It ends up being a balance between risk and cost. How much are we willing to spend, (measured in both money and time/invoncenence) to save a human life? To you and I, this is an impossible equation. Not so to the insurance companies! They have no problem assigning dollar figures based on what the loss of a life has cost them. The safety requirements we see largely reflects this. NFPA has really never cared much about the financial impact, either. If they see that a life can be saved, they're going to codify it.
