How to protect potentially destructive command line options?

I'm curious if anyone can help me with what the best way to protect potentially destructive command line options is for a linux command line application? To give a very hypothetical scenario: imagine a command line program that sets the maximum thermal setting for a processor before emergency power off. Lets further pretend that there are two main options, one of which is --max-temperature (in Celsius), which can be set to any integer between 30 & 50. There is also an override flag --melt which would disable the processor from shutting down via software regardless of how hot the processor got, until the system electrically/mechanically failed. Certainly such an option like --melt is dangerous, and could cause physical destruction at worst case. But again, lets pretend that this type of functionality is a requirement (albeit a strange one). The application has to run as root, but if there was a desire to help ensure the --melt option wasn't accidentally triggered by confused, or not experience users how would you do that? Certainly a very common anti-pattern (IMO) is to hide the option, so that --help or the man page doesn't reveal its existence, but that is security through obscurity and could have the unintended consequence of a user triggering it, but not being able to find out what it means. Another possibility is to change the flag to a command line argument that requires the user to pass --melt OVERRIDE, or some other token as a signifier that they REALLY mean to do this. Are there other mechanisms to accomplish the same goal?