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by vmateixeira 2236 days ago
Because FKs on a relational model.. as an example, deleting a user/account might end up being a task on going through every reference to it, and the references to its references, etc.

This is actually the reason some companies do not delete users/accounts [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005060