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by stev-0 1018 days ago
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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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.