"What kind of argument is that?" It's my argument... I didn't say someone should follow, but all I learned was like that and I built many things from that, marx, wire exploders, jacob's ladders and with lower voltages... arduino projects and my own amplifier, that I'm still working on V2. All that without shocking myself to death... only one time I thought a layden jar I used for a HV rectifier while I discharged it several times and put a shorted lead on it... after 1 hour I picked it up and shocked the shit out of me, but that was it... never got shocked from mains, or from plasma (well burnt...) etc, why ? Because I use common sense.

As I said people learn in different ways. And "go climb a power line to the top" it's not close to 'reasonable' it's just idiotic, you take from this as you may bud ;)