Why Aren't We Crushed by the Massive Amount of Air Above Us?

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er.manya said:
maybe the area covered by the atmosphere distributes the force exerted by it to such an extent that it makes it minimal on us? correct me please if I am wrong...
As stated several times in this (several year old) thread, air pressure is about 14.7 pounds per square inch.
 
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as we go underwater our body succumbs to the pressure extended by water plus the atmospheric pressure..maybe we are like solid blocks...a solid block can bear the force of an anvil coming on it up to certain limit but after that limit it breaks or crushes(as in the peanut and the elephant thread).maybe our body is capable enough to withstand the 14.7 pounds per square inch of pressure...
 
or maybe the surface of the Earth is like a neutral point where the net pressure of the atmosphere is 0 and as we go below the Earth's surface (underwater) the force vectors start to play again...
 
There are no maybes here; this is very well understood.

What exactly is confusing you?