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Everyone is deleting data, but with proper backups that's not a problem. How about:
This can really mess up your life.
Even if the script isn't malicious, if the internet drops out halfway the download you might end up with a "rm -r /", or similar, command.
So many things these days use that install.sh piping stuff, very bad practice.