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by astura 808 days ago
^--- See what I mean?

Dude just compared eating rice (a staple food staple food for 3.5 billion people) with cigarette smoking.

I rest my case.

2 comments

To whom are you talking? It looks at first glance like this post is "playing to the crowd", rather than honestly directed towards the person you're responding to.
I was replying to a comment about epilepsy, not rice. Not everyone who eats carbs will suffer epilepsy just like not everyone who smokes will get lung cancer. A medication mitigating that effect doesn't invalidate concerns around the trigger.