Yes, it's clear you take issue with the assumptions I'm making. That's okay. If you don't accept my premise that's fine, but you could just state that instead of saying that I'm being hypocritical or strutting out a variety of statements I haven't said ("you want to be a memory safety purist who ignores all tradeoffs and declares a language fundamentally unusable on safety grounds").

If you want to have a conversation with me about the things I'm talking about, I welcome it, but I don't see that happening.

> Yet your position is taking those value judgments - which orders of magnitudes to accept, which to group together as being the same degree of memory safety - and asserting them as objectively correct boundaries with minimal rationalisation beyond "because I feel it is so".

Yes, like I keep saying: two clusters each within an order of magnitude, separated by three orders of magnitude feel to me like two distinct things. That does not at all feel arbitrary. I think that claim is pretty self-explanatory. You appear to think it reduces to "because I feel it so" and in some sense it does. I am applying my own judgement and values in constructing those clusters. Someone who felt that any amount of memory safety was unacceptable would structure them differently. Someone who cared naught about memory safety would similarly group them differently too.