Also in the law, a thief can be compelled to return your property even if it was your own lack of security that allowed the theft to happen. Technically the thi

Also in the law, a thief can be compelled to return your property even if it was your own lack of security that allowed the theft to happen. Technically the thief loses his plunder, but according to the law it was never his to begin with. If we argue about whether the thief lost anything, we're just playing semantic games again. Also in the law, a suitable majority of voters and/or their delegates can change the law concerning the return of stolen property. They can even change the definition of theft if they want, or even change the Constitution. They're the (super-)majority after all. No amount of code or technology can ultimately stop them from having their will. Even the protections you mentioned only exist because some group of people who are more numerous than Alex and Beth have decided that they don't like freezeout mergers.