Someone Please Legislate in a Little Mercy

Today on the block Punk Rock HR, I read about security policies at R&D driven companies. I definitely see why they have a zero tolerance policy for breaches that destry their ability to make a profit and protect their employees. It is sometimes tough when someone makes an honest mistake and is sincerely contrite about it, but there is no more room left in business for friendly exemptions. Too many openings for litigation happy, disgruntled former employees. I have worked as a facility and field manager in HR in large companies, between 35,000 and over a million and the consistency is brutal. No exception will go unpunished whether from a legal exposure or business opportunity perspective. The general public's call to "fairness" has made mercy darn near impossible. The cry of the general populous to be treated fairly had gone the way of consistency to establish a baseline. This consistency stifles risk taking, because the stakes are too high to give up a good thing. It brings us closer every day to Orwell's 1984. Yeah, it's 2010, but the guy never claimed to be Nostradamus. Well meaning bureaucrats have created rule after rule to protect everyone from bad things that could happen to the point that we hop around with our feet and hands tied writing with a pencil in our mouth that we can't sharpen. All I ask is that someone please legislate in a little mercy, pleeeease!