Re: C-x C-v considered harmful

[Richard Stallman]

    > It is somewhat dangerous _because_ it has a key binding.

    No, it was claimed that the command's behavior itself is dangerous, which 
means
    regardless of how it is called.

Practically speaking, it is only dangerous because of the key binding.
If people had to run it with M-x, they would not type it by habit,
so it would not cause a problem.