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Re:Smoking cigarettes doubles the risk of developing depress... by zamalek on Friday September 01, 2023 @01:11PM (#37353556)
The only thing that "everyone you know is doing X" indicates is that "everyone you know does X." It is in no way correlated to how bad of an idea it is.
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Re:Smoking cigarettes doubles the risk of developing depress... by stev-0 on Friday September 01, 2023 @04:39PM (#37355949)
I never said it was a great idea. I said that equating it with a one in six change of instant death is a bit dramatic.
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Re:Smoking cigarettes doubles the risk of developing depress... by zamalek on Friday September 01, 2023 @04:56PM (#37356092)
It's a literary device: a simile. I'm not dumb enough to suggest that it's actually like Russian roulette, I myself would have been long dead. The similarity is with playing games with your life, which is objectively true.
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