Yeah, this is an absurd argument. How do I know I can trust Linux unless I personally audit the whole kernel? How do I know if I can trust my processor without an x-ray machine?
* Ancient script written by people at the company no longer here that may encode a bunch of assumptions and lots of dead code
* Personal script that is not to the level of full production
* Run untrusted script in a constrained environment to see at what stage it does something ugly - this will bypass obfuscation based on adding lots of dead code
That's like 3 things I already thought of while writing this comment. In like the 90 s it took me to compose this. These ostentatiously dramatic comments of yours aren't that interesting. Hopefully coming generations of engineers will look at your comments and be like "I wish I wasn't like that".