Daniel_

More people die taking a crap than almost any other activity.

This doesn't mean taking a crap is more dangerous than leaping off bridges - it means that every day almost every person on earth takes a crap (some people go several times a day).

Your hot-dog comparison ignores the most important statistic of all - how many people ate hot-dogs and did not choke.

The thing about hot-dogs is that nobody blends in drain cleaner or floor sweepings or brick dust to make ten hot-dogs into twenty five hot-dogs.

Nobody sells you kabanos sausage or chorizo telling you they're "frankfurter extreme".

When you buy Ecstasy you are not getting pure clean MDMA, you are getting whatever amphetamine the dealer happened to get his hands on, cut with whatever bulking agent he could get away with.

You think you're taking MDMA and that you can compare your drug taking experience with other times you've taken MDMA, but actually you are in the position of someone who's drunk Beer a few times and is being offered an opened bottle in a brown bag. Is it beer, is it wine, is it everclear cut with Gatorade and tramp phlegm?

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