If the pilots felt that the active law was blocking their recovery effort, they might decide to turn off some boxes in a last ditch effort.
When software goes bad, it takes considerable time just to identify exactly what the misbehavior constitutes. And it might not be the result of a miscalculation, but an unanticipated set of conditions that has the software running off in the wrong direction.
I like the philosophy in the Embraer Legacy 500 as described in the current issue of Flying.
There's just
two laws: Normal and Direct.
Much less potential for confusion when things start going wrong
