I was thinking more physical consequences. There's no way that a program running on my desktop can hurt me other than privacy / security / availability of my da

I was thinking more physical consequences. There's no way that a program running on my desktop can hurt me other than privacy / security / availability of my data. But I'm not going to the hospital because your D&D utility was written in a weekend and crashes sometimes. But you do raise a point about the real costs of mistakes even in trivial systems. Arguably that makes the point that operating systems should have stronger sandboxes between apps. An operating system is effectively infrastructure, you probably want higher quality standards there.