At some point in our lives, we've all been told not to throw things at people. Of course we know doing that is wrong, but what I never got was the reasoning they all used for telling us that.
Have you ever heard this or something similar? "Stop throwing things at people, you might knock out one of their eyes!". Seriously? You honestly think that if I threw something at someone it's going to knock out their eye? Ok for arguments sake, let's not worry about the knocking out and just focus on hitting one of the eyes. Have you ever seen an eye? Not very big is it? I didn't think so either! So what are the chances of you getting even remotely close to someone's eye when you hit them with an object? Don't get me wrong! It is wrong to be throwing things at people but instead of giving us that reason, just tell us not to do it because we might hit them in the head. That's about 100 times a bigger target than an eye and about 100 times more believable that it can happen so we might stop as opposed to continuing throwing things because in your head you know there's almost no way you could hit one of the eyes because you aren't that good.
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