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This is a great answer and I love the most relatable example for this community is having friends that deal drugs, apparently.
While the "something out of the ordinary might happen to you" (getting caught for dealing, being a stalker's victim) argument works for some, some may realize that rare things are, well, rare. It can be argued the effort to counter rare scenarios can only be justified to a certain degree, or not at all.
I think this language is more universal:
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