We would like to behave correctly should we encounter a similar situation.

This has the potential to maximise available parallelism and minimise synchronisation costs, but requires mathematical proofs which show that the objects behave correctly.

And anyway, behaving correctly, or doing good, may count for less than just discouraging people from doing bad.

Officers involved in the incident behaved correctly and should not be disciplined, an independent inquiry concluded.

But the racecourse was blameless for the first circumstance and behaved correctly in the second.