[meastham]

Because that's not what rm does. Changing it would be breaking all sorts of standards. Many, many things depend on rm simply unlinking files. Why don't you use a different program if you would like to have some sort of trashbin behavior?

[cool-RR]

I'd be cool with using a clone of `rm` that sends to the recycling bin instead of actually deleting. I think that Linux should include a clone like this by default.