[infamouscow]

This line of reasoning is genuinely stupid, it deserves to be derided and mocked.

You can draw a straight line between these "mistakes" and these people violating traffic laws in such a way that they kill other motorists abiding by all traffic laws.

By your reasoning, I can burn your house down and kill your family, and it's absolved by apologizing.

What you don't understand is suicidal empathy eventually corrects itself with extremely violent vigilantism. And when (not if) that happens, you'll be begging for the state to come in to restore order, but they will be unable to. The state has already ceded legitimacy by not performing their duties, and what you're left with are violent gangs and warlords.

Dark triad sociopaths view this as a way to cease power. What they miss is real power comes from groups of armed individuals, not from a ballot box.

[mcphage]

> By your reasoning, I can burn your house down and kill your family, and it's absolved by apologizing.

Yes, "your drivers license doesn't expire when your work visa does" is exactly like "burning your house down and killing your family". This is a sane, logical thing to say, and reflects an expected level of adult maturity.

[Freedom2]

Not entirely sure comparing an administrative error to burning someone's house down (how do you even know they live in a house?) and killing their family lines up with the HN guidelines.

[infamouscow]

Making the same administrator error 17,000 times is not an accident.

[dmitrygr]

Administrative error is when it happens once. Not 17e3 times!