When can using every other be dangerous?

God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, but they could eat from every every other tree in the garden,

It would be difficult, in the second sense of the meaning of ‘every other’ if they interpreted it to mean you could eat from one tree but not the next—then you could eat from the one after that, but not the next ,,,,

Right. I’m thinking of examples in this life.
I’ll get back here. tomorow. Thanks.

Well if a doctor says “You can not use this medicine for that injury, but you can use it for every other kind of injury,” that could be confusing and dangerous. Someone could lose their leg.

“I’ll stop at *every other” Stop Light!”

Alice had a problem with the phrase. I think that in nearly all cases you can tell by the context. If the phrase is to be used as in the first sense then, as in your first example, a specific case is given, with other referring to everything else.

Suppose the conversation went like this:

@flo, every other question you ask makes a lot of sense. But this one is nonsensical.

It might be dangerous (for me) if you hit me over the head for insulting you.

You are in a chemist’s store room. Jars of chemicals are lined up on a bookshelf. The chemist hands you a jar and says, “this chemical is safe.But look at the shelves. Every other chemical on the shelves is dangerous.”

It would be safer to presume that the chemist was referring to the totality of chemicals, not just every second jar of chemicals on the shelves.

“Shannon, dear, now that we’re engaged, I will ignore the advances of every other woman who comes on to me.”

How interesting. How about next and this when referring to a day of the week? “Your doctor’s appointment is next Friday” (by a family member not the office). I guess people usually take the date not just the day but, for those who don’t, to those next Friday is no different from this Friday, ((new comers) they waste a lot of time money sacrifice something important to make it to “this” Friday when the appointment is the following Friday.

…Not dangerous though.

My response was dangerous.

Shannon I had to sleep with Becky. She came on to me after Amy and I promised you “every other”.