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 Do you realize how insane that statement is? You just suggested you believe nobody has ever told a computer not to do what it's told. 
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 I recommend reading the Robots series from Isaac Asimov. It deals with this very questions and paradoxes and it's a scifi classic. 
 I'm hinting at how every computer these days is told at the factory to not do what it's told. It's been a long long time since computers with a tendency to do what they're told were common. 
 I didn't say the user was to one telling the computer what to do. It's not... 
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