Risk is all in the mind. It is a word that refers to a future that exists only in the imagination. Contrary to the insistence, routinely found in discussions of the subject, on a distinction between "objective" risk and "perceived" risk, all risk is subjective.
To take a risk is to do something that has a possibility of an adverse outcome. Why should anyone want to do such a thing? Because, as well as possible adverse effects, risks also bring rewards.
Of course, everything we do carries some unknown probability of an accident - an unintended, undesired outcome. In the past such outcomes were commonly characterised as acts of God, who moves in mysterious ways, or, in a secular age, as bad luck. With the help of a good lawyer, however, it is increasingly possible to transform almost any stroke of bad luck into culpable negligence. We now live in ...
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