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...and just to clarify:

I find the idea that "Shit Happens" leads to a passivity on the part of people and an acceptance of the way things are.

I see your point. If I were to argue that everything is just random and chaotic, I could see giving up, but, as usual, it's not an either/or situation. It's like that AA statement about knowing what you can control, knowing what you can't control, and having the wisdom to know the difference. (Maybe they say "change" rather than "control," but for my purposes they're basically the same thing.)

What about those people whose houses get hit by meteors or people who get struck by lightening? Where's the agent there?

You can certainly take steps to minimize the risk, to reduce the chance that chaos will result in mistakes - that's the whole point of SOPs, I believe - but you can't eliminate those things completely. Hell, we can't even predict the weather.

However, I will be searching under my car for squirrel chewed wires tomorrow. :)

Assuming I get up at all...I'm not even going to check for responses elsewhere, I'm just going to go to bed.