if you touch a wire and you’re not grounded, you wont get harmed, why?

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I understand why you get harmed if you’re grounded, you’re becoming part of the wire and the electricity is going from you to the earth. what I dont understand is, why the electricity doesnt harm you when youre not touching the ground, isnt it going through you either way? how does it not affect your body?

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Electricity wants to go home. Home is ground and you aren’t on electricity’s GPS leading to home. It doesn’t want to take a detour to get home, so why would it run through you?

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