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That doesn't mean that a cleaned out /etc/ or any other system-critical directory won't hurt you a lot. Sure, you can't "kill" a linux box with RM anymore, but you can still make it pretty damn unusable
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rm doesn't let you delete root anymore.
They fixed that, check the manpage.
That doesn't mean that a cleaned out /etc/ or any other system-critical directory won't hurt you a lot. Sure, you can't "kill" a linux box with RM anymore, but you can still make it pretty damn unusable
Isn't that what good permissions, not running as root by default, and backups, are all for?
Considering we are discussing this in a beginners post about Linux, the foundation of careful usage should still apply.
Other than that, yes you are certainly right. A beginner probably doesn't have these precautions in place though.