If I ruled the world, a program that got itself into a state where something was wrong and it didn't know what to do would just say "AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!".
That way no-one would be misled.

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)