Garbage Collection - Memory Management by Negligence

I realize that calling garbage collection "negligent" memory management isn't really fair. But
I've heard enough people argue that garbage collection is the cure for the disease that is C++ memory management bugs, e.g. arguments like these.

The classic C++ response to "new/delete makes bugs" is "manual memory management is fast." I'm not sure I would agree with this. I would say that C++ gives a programmer the flexibility to pick a memory management strategy and tune it to be fast for a given application. But I will argue three other reasons why I would rather have explicit than garbage collected memory management:

1. Reproducible deallocation paths. When we get a bug in X-Plane where memory has been trashed, an object has been freed, or some other memory-related bug, the most important thing for us is that the bug be reproducible. If the sim employed generalized garbage collection, then a whole catagory of unrelated behavior would potentially introduce when objects are allocated/destroyed. I would even argue that garbage collection breaks encapsulation by allowing the behavior of objects to be influenced by unrelated subsystems in surprising ways (since they are all linked through a garbage collector).
2. Explicit description of memory-allocation. One thing I like about X-Plane is that I can see where we deallocate memory. Each deallocation is programmed*. If I find a buggy deallocation, I can trace it back to an intended deallocate and then ask "what did I mean by this".
3. Explicit memory management means programmers thinking about memory management. What I would argue is that you can make all the same kinds of mistakes in a garbage-collected system as you can in an explicit system, e.g. by making circular loops of objects, etc. But no one ever said "when you use new/dispose, just relax and don't think about memory - it'll just work".

*Not necessarily programmed by new/dispose - I am all in favor of building up abstractions around memory management - sometimes even garbage collection.

Okay now I've contradicted myself. I suppose a more fair statement would be that memory management strategies have implications. A programmer should pick a strategy for a given problem and realize that it's a design decision with trade-offs. Picking garbage collection has good and bad things about it, but like most design patterns, it is not appropriate for all code (and I would even say it's not appropriate for all OO code) and while it makes some things easier, it makes other things harder.