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 Sticking ''anything'' in a document that no-one will ever read again, and most people in your organisation wouldn’t understand even if they did, is a really bad way of [[hedging]] against a real risk.
-===Don't ''go'' to knife fights===
+===Don’t ''go'' to knife fights===
 Time for one of the [[JC]]’s patronising little parables.
-A fellow was out on his bicycle, thundering down Cranley Gardens, as you do, enjoying the rush of wind through his thinning thatch and generally revelling in uncommon gratitude for the affordances — usually so depressing, for a man his age — of gravity. Cranley Gardens is steep, has a dogleg and a few intersecting crossroads that come at it from oblique angles. But straight-through traffic, such as our intreprid fellow, has the right of way — of that there is little doubt.
+:''A fellow was out on his bicycle, thundering down Cranley Gardens, as you do, enjoying the rush of wind through his thinning thatch and generally revelling in uncommon gratitude for the affordances — usually so depressing, for a man his age — of gravity. Cranley Gardens is steep, has a dogleg and a few intersecting crossroads that come at it from oblique angles. But straight-through traffic, such as our intreprid fellow, has the right of way — of that there is little doubt.
-Now imagine that, notwithstanding that, a jalopy careened from one of those junctions without looking. What comfort will it be, as he tests iout its crumple zone, for our cycling hero? So he takes a measure of caution, constantly scanning the intersections,  standing ready to slam on the brakes should some damn fool pull out in front of her.
+:''Now imagine that, notwithstanding the plain legal position, a jalopy careened from one of those junctions without looking and into his path. How much comfort will it be to our cycling hero, as he bodily tests out its crumple zone, that ''he was in the right''? We would respectfully submit, ''none at all''. So our man in Cranley takes a measure of caution, constantly scans the intersections, moderates his speed, and stands ready to slam on the brakes should some damn fool pull out in front of him.
-Behaviour only a young lad, still convinced of immortality, would query.
-And it seems to be stating no more than the bleeding obvious that the psychological satisfaction a fellow might derive from ''knowing'' he was in the right, had been all along, and that the other driver was utterly to blame — ''liability'' entirely his, without question of mitigation or [[contributory negligence]] — runs a distant second to the inconvenience of the six months you’ll spend in traction recovering, yes, at that careless tortfeasor’s sole and unlimited expense, and the painful therapy you’ll need of you’re ever to walk again.
+This — heuristic and, yes, ''fallible'' dynamic risk management, is the only way to cope with the mortal risks of a [[complex]], non-linear system. It is behaviour only a young lad, still convinced of immortality, would query.
+And we state no more than the bleeding obvious when we surmise that the satisfaction our cycling hero might derive from ''knowing'' he was in the right, and had been all along, and that the other chap was utterly, legally, to blame, without question of mitigation or even [[contributory negligence]] — that simple pleasure runs a distant second to the inconvenience of the six months he’ll spend in traction recovering ''if he is lucky'', at that tortfeasor’s sole and unlimited expense, and the years of painful therapy he’ll need if he is ever to walk again.
+Your Additional Termination Events? They are like the satisfaction of knowing that your hospital bed is fully paid for.
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