[rusk]

A "trivial example" is where you demonstrate a concept using a simplified or trivial scenario. It's quite a common term, and I didn't mean it as a put-down.

"victime-blaming", "shoot in the face" .. I feel are fairly extreme terms to describe what's happening here. The scenario you've concocted is really only one that could occur where you didn't know what you were doing and Git (or the command line) aren't really things you'd end up using if you didn't know what you're doing.

[swish_bob]

It's not a concocted scenario, the cli command in question explicitly has a property that defaults to preventing it from doing what it should do, unless you override the property. Explicitly because it's so destructive when you do it by mistake.

[rusk]

it's concocted because that's something you'd never do.