If you don't like Linus, you can always fork Linux and create DyslexicAtheist OS :), but no you are attacking, he clearly says few mails later, that killing machine without very good reason is big no:
I absolutely refuse to take any hardening patches at all that have
BUG() or panic() or similar machine-killing in it.
I absolutely refuse to take any hardening patches at all that have BUG() or panic() or similar machine-killing in it.