Thus far it’s been an inspiring exchange of views from relatively differing viewpoints.
I agree, nothing wrong with a constructive debate.
However I think we verged on ridiculous a while ago now?
I think even yourself can see that you're going overboard with that aspect just to somehow validate your own method?
I'm still struggling to see how yours is anymore safe than his -both methods are valid and both methods can either be done safely or unsafely regardless of the time it takes to carry them out.
The original post had no mention of novices (or the safety 101 for car novices) and more to the point owning a charger would mean that the owner is not a complete novice regarding connections and how batteries work. Unless the battery is unfit to use adjusting the time makes it no more "dangerous" than your example.
Seen as though health and safety is paramount to your example could you please answer the following for me? I'm genuinely interested...
If I were a novice doing this exercise would you advise me to wear safety goggles and hand protection just in case of the possibilities you speak of? Surely so given that they would help protect me from such dangers that could arise from handling batteries?
Also given that you've got to lift a heavy(ish) metal object above your head in order to retrieve the battery would it also be a good idea to wear a hard hat?
Maybe you should have made your first post clearer and included a detailed health and safety protocol for novices to abide by, odd that it was omitted given how it's clearly paramount to your points/method...