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What about killing a process? What about a parent process killing it's children?! Does context not matter any more?


Thanks to the Windows kernel memory isolation and sandboxing they are literally locking the child processes in cages. Of course I’d expect nothing less of Microsoft, an evil company that works with ICE.

Though instead of a parent process “killing” a child we should just say “aborting.” That’s much less problematic.


For better or worse, killing doesn't have such bad associations. Many of us regularly play video games where you kill people, and if you turn on the TV you'll see a lot more depictions of killing than depictions of slavery.


No, the poster above genuinely hit upon something with respect to killing child processes. Speaking from experience with a past colleague, some women that have had miscarriages bear a silent emotional burden of grief.


So we're only trying to avoid negative emotions here? That seems...transient.




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