system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: why are tablets so difficult to swallow without water? It seems to me that we swallow things larger than them all the time, yet there seems to something stopping us when it comes to tablets.
gpt
Sure there are bigger things we swallow, but they're wet and lubricated, completely deformable (due to chewing) and don't have a psychological component to them (they don't stick and cause ulcers, they're not bitter, we're not told to avoid chewing them, etc.).