[stouset]

I don’t think most Rust programmers agree it’s impossible at all.

There’s always unsafe. I can make a pointer to anywhere by hand and write to it. That would involve some very intentional work, but I could do it if I wanted to.

[estebank]

There's a difference between "chamber a round, remove the safety, aim at the foot, shoot" and "open the kitchen faucet, leg gets blown off".

[stouset]

Yes of course. But the GP said it isn’t possible. It is. It’s not even hard.

But I did disclaim that it had to be somewhat intentional.