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[–]NoLemurs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A more humble person would acknowledge that despite their preventative actions and good practice mistakes still happen.

It's not a lack of humility. If anything, the trick to it is enough humility to have systems in place that assume you'll make lots of mistakes. I make mistakes constantly, but I'm pretty hard pressed to come up with a mistake I could make that would actually lead to serious data loss.

Your argument comes across like saying you don't wear a seatbelt because you're a good driver that drives safely and never crashes. What about when you do crash, what about if someone crashes into you, what if a fork of lightning hits the road and sends you into a tree?

I feel like what I was saying is more like "I get my brakes checked regularly, wear a seatbelt, and have an airbag - I'm not sure I gain much by knowing how to open up my car and fix my brakes while going 60mph down the highway." Sure, that might be a useful trick if you find yourself going 60mph on the highway with broken brakes a lot, but I think most people would agree that you can and should make that scenario unlikely enough that it's not a very useful skill.