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A deb is not an executable. You can't run it
And neither is a doc file, but most OSes would open up a compatible word processor.
It has pre and post-install scripts. Once you hand it off to dpkg, it can do pretty much anything.
It can install a service that will start automatically after install, so for all intents and purposes, if you click it and enter your sudo password, you might as well have run an executable.