I think the fear is not that there is no justice to help them.
The point is that when exceptional measures are needed, you want to know how far you can go, without it coming back to you in the months afterwards.
It's a bit like InfoSec cyber incident playbooks: if customer data is being corrupted, can the production server be shut down? how bad does it need to be before the downtime no longer outweighs the corruption? who can take the decision?
If you don't spell that out in advance, you may find yourself in a situation where you lose time unnecessarily.
The point is that when exceptional measures are needed, you want to know how far you can go, without it coming back to you in the months afterwards.
It's a bit like InfoSec cyber incident playbooks: if customer data is being corrupted, can the production server be shut down? how bad does it need to be before the downtime no longer outweighs the corruption? who can take the decision?
If you don't spell that out in advance, you may find yourself in a situation where you lose time unnecessarily.