Recklessness

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Of the intentional states, one of the more culpable. The inadvertent is blameless; she neither knew the risk she ran, nor could be reasonably expected to have anticipated it. The negligent should have foreseen the risk, on the premise that a fellow selected at random from the pews of the sacred omnibus bound for Clapham would have seen it, but did not; the reckless saw the risk, all right, and decided to plough on notwithstanding, though she had no particular wish or expectation that the risk would come about; the intentional did it as a matter