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| {{g}}In the law of [[tort]], to be aware of a risk, and to run it nonetheless. Of the intentional states, one of the more culpable. Unlike its weedier bedfellows [[negligence]] and [[gross negligence]], not commonly incorporated, even by analogy, into a [[contract]]ual framework. | | {{g}}In the law of [[tort]], to be aware of a risk, and to run it nonetheless. Of the intentional states, one of the more culpable. Unlike its weedier bedfellows [[negligence]] and [[gross negligence]], not commonly incorporated, even by analogy, into a [[contract]]ual framework. |
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| Where the '''[[Inadvertence|inadvertent]]''' is blameless, neither knowing the risk she runs, nor being reasonably expected to be able to anticipate it; and the '''[[Negligence|negligent]]''' has some civil, civic responsibility for what befalls his [[neighbour]] on the premise that, since that odious hypothetical fellow plucked from the pews of the sacred [[Man on the Clapham Omnibus|Clapham omnibus]] would have seen it, so should he, even though in point of fact he did not; the '''[[reckless]]''' sees the risk, all right, and decides to plough on and take it, notwithstanding, that she might have no particular wish or expectation that a calumny should befall ''anyone'', least of all the [[plaintiff]].
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| The '''[[Intention|intender]]''', in contrast to all those above, does what he does as a matter of cold-blooded, contemptuous [[Calculated|calculation]].<ref>This use of the word “calculation” might upset some tort lawyers, for in legal terms to be “[[calculated]]” means expected to happen as a matter of probability, rather than mendacious design. Odd, really.</ref>
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| ===In brief===
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| {{Liability ladder}} | | {{Liability ladder}} |