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by xolox 699 days ago
I think toxicity is a relative concept, not absolute. I mean you can die from drinking too much water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication) yet at the same time you need to drink plenty of water to survive. People have been making this point better than I ever could for hundreds of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison