You think the average person wouldn't try to run their entire house by plugging in a generator to a branch circuit?
The breaker would trip.
OK, so that breaker trips, protecting the rest of the house. The branch circuit into which the generator is plugged is still live, and no protective device is between generator and anything else on that branch circuit (except for the generator's own output breaker). Average Joe's family plugs everything into the remaining receptacles on that branch circuit.
Ok I can see now where you're coming at this from, so please forgive me for mocking you earlier.
Regardless, all generators have their own over current protection. I suppose theoretically somebody could bring their pizza oven into their bedroom and run it on a 14 awg circuit, but 14 awg Romex can handle 20 amps anyway.
Retarded people are going to be retarded, let's not cripple society over it. That's how you end up with coffee cups having to bear labels reading "warning, contents hot", and frozen pizza packages that say "remove plastic before baking pizza".
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