Comment by cxr

This comment-and-response pair has a really weird "shape".

You're offering a retort to someone who is communicating their position that you ought not do something, where the retort consists of nothing more than explaining that people are doing it. Yes, clearly. But what the person you're responding to is arguing is that you ought not do it.

Consider the following hypothetical:

Person A: Here's little advice: don't take up smoking. Smoking is bad for you.

Person B: Yet people smoke—my cousin, for example.

The point of the other comment wasn't that it isn't happening or that it's physically impossible to even try. Indeed, the fact that it's being done—or that people are attracted, at least, to trying to do it—was rather the entire premise of their "word of caution".