This is like saying the dangerousness of Russian roulette "depends on the person...

nsxwolf · on Dec 9, 2011

That's probably not correct. The grandmother playing Russian Roulette is truly the beneficiary of random chance. She's still susceptible to bullets.

The centenarian smoker likely was never susceptible to smoking-induced lung cancer in the first place.

mortenjorck · on Dec 9, 2011

The hammer is cocked when your embryo is conceived, and you can find out if the chamber was empty a few decades later.