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I don't think it does. If one blindly copies a command to their terminal, this is a good lesson not to do so. Too many projects suggest `curl foo | sh` as the "quick and ready to go" method for installation which is equally as bad as rm -rf in the wild.

83% of them wouldn’t see any effect.

Unfortunately that might just compel them to keep trying.

I agree. However, in this case I believe most versions of rm would complain about passing "/" as an argument without also passing "--no-preserve-root", so there's that at least.