When a user is describing exactly how they're aiming at their foot and pulling the trigger but nothing happens, I'd assume they actually want to shoot themselves in the foot...
Thus, the first response is the correct one.
On preventing people from doing what they intend to do...I think the main issue is the world is a large place, people face many situations, and most advices given in good faith only have an extremely limited view of what people might need to do. And it's kinda awkward to ask for someone's whole life to decide if they are right in wanting to straight rename a table column on their live production DB.
Something could be a bad idea 99% of the time. But that leaves millions of people in the 1% for whom it's the best course of action.
Thus, the first response is the correct one.
On preventing people from doing what they intend to do...I think the main issue is the world is a large place, people face many situations, and most advices given in good faith only have an extremely limited view of what people might need to do. And it's kinda awkward to ask for someone's whole life to decide if they are right in wanting to straight rename a table column on their live production DB.
Something could be a bad idea 99% of the time. But that leaves millions of people in the 1% for whom it's the best course of action.