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[–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

The body is a resistor, limiting the fire of the system in the same way if a lamp would be in the circuit.

A short is a circuit with ideally no impedance, there isn't an ideal circuit and one can debate how much resistance would invalidate the term 'short circuit' so both of you might be right.

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