True but that's the trivial case. You'll never get food poisoning if we outlaw food, never get into a car accident if we outlaw cars, ...

The point is there should be a better way that just pull the plug on anything potentially unsafe.

Generally I get food poisoning when the restaurant, supermarket or producer fails to follow the health standards it is obliged by law.

And then I can sue them to death or make a report to health authorities that will act accordingly.

In parallel the GA planes used got old. Imagine the same happening for the software!!!

In 2000, the average age of the nation's 150,000 single-engine fleet was more than 30 years. By 2020, the average age could approach 50 years

https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/small...

I don't know about "rare", since 1999 the broadest "accident" statistic fluctuates around 6 per 100,000h

Notice that "accident" definition conveniently excludes tons of partial failures! (see the legalese of 49 CFR § 830.2 - Definitions.)

To make parallel with broader discussion, the security failing of software could be considered "partial failures"...