Ok, moving on to your point:
Originally Posted by Pace
I regard instant or partial failure as almost the same as a partial in certain circumstances can be worse than an instant failure!
Pace how can two things be the same if one is worse than the other. By definition they must be different and therefore require different skills or thought processes to deal with?
What you say about the different considerations re a partial is good and I thank you for causing me to think it through. That said I remain of the opinion, and it is only opinion, that a partail will more often than not result in a better outcome than had it been total failure.
BB