Do you do risky things? If so, how often? Is it worth it when you do?
I’m not talking about passively risky things like driving a car. I’m talking about having sex with a girl you’re not sure of, without a condom. I’m talking about shorting $5,000 on a stock. I’m talking about doing something that is only semi-legal, but will pay off well. (Semi-legal in the sense that nobody seems to be sure if it’s legal, but it’s not clearly illegal.)
And no please don’t include !!eXtremE!!1 sports.
probably not often enough …
Yea, I’m a diabetic and make pancakes with some nice sugary syrup. I’d call that a risk. I’m type one. I do cheat with my insulin intake to sort of stifle the onrush of sugar.
I have done so in the past, I can’t say I will do it in the future. Risks must be taken if the chips are down.
What is the inherent reason for your asking the question?
What do you wish to learn about your fellow man by asking?
How about this. If you saw a child fall onto a commuter rail line as a train was approaching, and you quickly assesed the situation and saw that you had what you perceived to be enough time to jump onto the tracks and possibly save the childs life would you take the inherent risk of losing your life for the possibility of saving the child? But this would be a risk directed more towards the benefit of another, and it sounds like you are more concerned with people that take risks for personal gain, so again I ask you to elaborate upon your motives.
No, I don’t want to explain myself and my motives to you.
Nope, not a risk taker.
I have had sex without a condom before several times. Got lucky too. Phew! Wouldn’t do it again. I already have pressed my luck.
Sex with a condom is slightly better than dry humping.
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“No, I don’t want to explain myself and my motives to you.”
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I asked some simple questions and you refuse to explain anything? Totally amazing, and completely useless.
I shoplifted from time to time when I was of school age, which must count as risky.
I used to be a semi-professional poker player, which is semi-illegal in my country 
. But I know I’m more on the side of risk-aversion than risk-loving, I had to fight that urge to become a better player. And I don’t nearly take enough risks in life too. I think I take more than most… . Society is, generally speaking, more organised towards risk-aversion.
And is it worth it?
Well, sometimes it is, and sometimes it’s not. But that’s not the point. If you are good at estimating the factors involved, and that’s a big if, you’ll only take a risk if you know a positive outcome is more likely. In the long run, consistently taking positive risks should be worth it, … unless you have a lot of bad luck.
Nothing personal. I just don’t like explaining myself. If I offended you, that was not my goal.
Haha, and holy shit I just explained myself.
I can’t shut-my-mouth in situations where i’m correct and justified even if not doing so creates a decent to huge amount of risk, though i’m not overly afraid to defend myself. Like this one asshole threatening to pull me outside over some bullshit with his kid, I told him he was a pathetic parent that it wasn’t my responsibility to raise his kid and that he’d be chasing his teeth around the pavement outside if he took one step toward me, but more insults about him being an idiot. (The guy was raging at me for letting his kid use a lighter, but since it wasn’t my responsibility to watch his damn kid, i didn’t ‘let’ anyone do anything.) Anyway the guy was raging about starting a fight with me, it never happened but it easily could have, esp with the way I was talking.
I don’t know, if someone tries and bullies me I rarely back down, I don’t like it but more than that I find it outright enraging. If someone took a swing at me i’d probably knife them if given the chance as well, since i’m not overly inclined to take brain-damage which is a possibility even against sad and weak opponents.
I hate the thought of fighting (as in i’d punch someone in the throat to stop it) but I also hate being bullied/threatened and don’t back down. So, its really a bad combination.
Some cop manhandled me over a crime I did not commit as well, scarred me wrists with the cuffs he was throwing me around so forcefully. He ripped me out of his car so hard it was fairly easy to fake a fall and drive my elbow into his liver. But it was a risky and stupid call. Luckily two officers coming from the police station seen it and thought the guy was being rough enough that I actually tripped and critisized him pretty heavily for the way he ripped me back up to my feet.
but for the record, by not backing down I mean verbally and if someone shows signs they want to get physical, I tell them straight up if they want to go that way they better not have a problem with me tearing/thumbing out an eye or punching them in the throat. I have little tolerance for violent people and no tolerance for violence directed against me.
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It’s not a problem. I do understand. I just have more of an interest in the definition of risk and the reasons an individual takes them rather than hearing or witnessing a testomonial about what risks an individual has taken. Personally I believe that people take many more risks during a given day than they realize. Talking to a stranger, or even to a man or woman you’re attracted to. Choosing to go one way over another on your way to work because traffic is thick. These may not be risks with an inherently dangerous consequences but they can form the entire structure of ones expirienced moment which in turn forms ones life.
Everyone is quite different as well. An action with a perceived risk which is taken by one person may be a dialy occurence for another person. It really depends upon the structure of how one breaks the concept of risk down.
The bolded part seems odd to me, I really can’t imagine what that could mean. Care to explain?