system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is it possible to build up enough static electricity to seriously harm yourself?
gpt
Lightning is an example of static electricity which can harm you, but it is built up by systems much larger than your body is capable of replicating. If you were to try to build up enough static electricity by doing something like shuffling wool socks against carpet, your feet would melt off long before you could build up a charge strong enough to cause anything more than a superficial dermal burn. 

And this is assuming that you are a closed system. As you built up enough of a charge to harm yourself, you are constantly losing that charge to the water particles in the air around you, or to the ground through your socks. 

It would be nearly impossible to build up a charge great enough to kill you.