My analogy: If I intentionally shoot someone and they die, but I have second thoughts and revive them, I still should at least go to jail for trying to kill them. I shouldn't get to say "Oops, it was a mistake", I'll just pay the guy's hospital bills", and then get handed a lucrative new job in charge of catching people who shoot each other.
Inside Obama’s sausage factory, conditions may be similar to some of the factories I’ve worked in. You don’t want to be the second guy to get hurt. First hand injury, say, will bring about heightened awareness and enforcement, so if you get similarly cut, soon after, the scrutiny and enforcement are quadrupled, and the investigating safety reactionaries will do all that they can to punish, or even fire, you for your carelessness. First guy hurt, though, he usually skates by with a warning.