Most self defense laws also include provisions for using "leathal force" to defend others from harm. By simply barring the gates from this attack you are, in essence, passing the danger to another system that may not be as able to defend itself as your own. Someones going to get hurt somewhere along the line if you let something roam the neighborhood/net looking to do damage.

The comparison of an invading process to a human intruder is flawed. Killing a milignat process is more eqivilent to shooting the gun out of an assailents hand than shooting them in the head (Ie. bringing the system hosting it down). Last time I checked a human life meant more than a few electrons...




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