Actually, exception rethrowing is a real thing - at least in Java. You may not always want to handle the exception at the absolute lowest level, so sometimes you will instead “bubble” the exception up the callstack. This in turn can help with centralizing exception handling, separation of concerns, and making your application more modular.

It seems counter-intuitive but it’s actually legit, again at least in Java. lol

I’m offended that you’d put my code on the internet.

Seen this so many times, i weep for humanity

This can’t compile, can it? Only a madman commits code which doesn’t compile.

while (true) {
    start();
}

Looks like there was a Console.WriteLine(ex) previously. When removed, the thought “Yeah, exception handling is important” came up. So yes, this could be mine