> > >If it doesn't, it must refuse to run at all.
> >
> > How does the child have any guarantees about anything? In other
> > words, how can it refuse to run?
>
> It can't. The thing is that if the child (which before
> instantiation is just a bunch of numbers) should have a say
> in this, then it must somehow be able to decide to "refuse"
> something. I meant to indicate that this is impossible.
Yes, but perhaps I wish to refuse the allow the program to run in
certain circumstances, and so I wish to write encode into the program
the means for detecting these situations. You have taken that ability
from me. You are constraining my actions, and removing my freedom.
If I wrote a program that I wished to keep for myself, I might encode
into it a way to make sure that only I am running it. If someone then
steals my private program, what is essentially my property, they can
benefit from it without my consent. You are enabling theft without
repercussion.
-={C}=-
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