Why a faulty desktop application run as unprivileged user is able to crash my system?

I mean, I know programs have bugs and sometimes they lead to crashes. I'm fine with that. But why a crashing program (for example firefox or banshee) is able to kill the whole system?

And by 'crash' or 'kill' i mean that for whatever reason the system is frozen and doesn't reply to anything but a hard reset.

It just doesn't make much sense so I'm assuming that I must be doing something wrong. Where and what kind of restrictions should I set up to make sure that a buggy unprivileged program cannot freeze my box?

Thank you in advance. Michael.
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