Hmmm… have half of us here switched of their brains or just acting stupid? Luckily a few made some sense in the end.
In a SE when your engine fails... you go down... during the night it's pretty damn hard to see WHERE until its too late....(unless you are flying NVGs or over a big City where there are less options to safely land...). In a Twin, you say "oops one of my engines failed, let's lower the collective a little and head to the nearest airfield where a SAFE landing can be made." Not a somewhat controlled crash (yes… you can be stabilised….still going down!) into the unknown….
Of course it is a seperate discussion about the chance of an engine failing…. cause indeed the SE`s nowadays are pretty reliable. But then we can challenge a lot of operations… we could even argue to build a big airliner with 1 engine… might be more efficient, but I wouldn´t get on one.