My position is that life is inherently dangerous and we are constantly tossing the dice, aside from sitting in the middle of a large field for your entire existence, there is a level of risk that may lead to harm when we do anything, and in particular any human construct can and at some point will fail in some way and possibly cause harm to someone (buildings fall down, dams fail, cars crash, airplanes stop flying). What Airbus has tried to do is prevent most of the obvious bad things from being allowed, through control laws, but as with any control system, once you exceed the design limits, well, bad things may occur.
It's clear that Airbus has done a pretty good job - there are thousands flying. Obviously this is not to say things cannot be improved. Of course improvements are possible.
To be specific, we are trying to push the envelope.
