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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6075941" data-attributes="member: 6696971">@<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?6681948-N-raac" target="_blank">N'raac</a> Please reread my post.&nbsp; For whatever reason, even after explaining it a second time, you're still conflating risk assessment and the accompanying determination that either the risk/reward paradigm is fubar or that it is reasonably assumed and thus the strategic planning to mitigate the assumed risk while attaining the sought end (whatever that end might be - fame, fortune, legacy, etc). I'm not talking about 100 % absolute risk aversion.&nbsp; I don't know why you're doing that.&nbsp; I'm talking about the actuarial science and speculation markets that creatures who &quot;need/want stuff&quot; involve themselves with in order to discern risk/reward.&nbsp; Evolutionary biology works off of the same principles (as I wrote above - the sought end there being survival and proliferation of genes/species).&nbsp; A Wizard has a &quot;sought end&quot; that supersedes 100 % absolute risk aversion the moment he adopts the career of &quot;adventurer&quot; in a world that actively wants to end his existence.&nbsp; I don't know why we're still conflating actuarial science/evolutionary biology with 100 % risk aversion.&nbsp; Wizards with 100 % risk aversion are not adventurers.&nbsp; They toil in their towers and study arcane tomes (or teach, etc) until they are bones.&nbsp; Case closed.&nbsp; So lets not talk about them.&nbsp; I'm certainly not.&nbsp; I'm talking about adventuring wizards.Risk assessment and assumption of risk/mitigation strategies to hedge risk is not a zero sum game.&nbsp; You don't just assume all risk (with no mitigation strategies) or assume none.&nbsp; And if you're an adventuring wizard, you're already in the game, so talking about risk aversion is nonsensical.&nbsp; You need/want something and you determine what risk to assume/when and how to minimize its chance for actualization or mitigate it when it manifests.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6075941, member: 6696971"] @[URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?6681948-N-raac"][B]N'raac[/B][/URL] Please reread my post. For whatever reason, even after explaining it a second time, you're still conflating risk assessment and the accompanying determination that either the risk/reward paradigm is fubar or that it is reasonably assumed and thus the strategic planning to mitigate the assumed risk while attaining the sought end (whatever that end might be - fame, fortune, legacy, etc). I'm not talking about 100 % absolute risk aversion. I don't know why you're doing that. I'm talking about the actuarial science and speculation markets that creatures who "need/want stuff" involve themselves with in order to discern risk/reward. Evolutionary biology works off of the same principles (as I wrote above - the sought end there being survival and proliferation of genes/species). A Wizard has a "sought end" that supersedes 100 % absolute risk aversion the moment he adopts the career of "adventurer" in a world that actively wants to end his existence. I don't know why we're still conflating actuarial science/evolutionary biology with 100 % risk aversion. Wizards with 100 % risk aversion are not adventurers. They toil in their towers and study arcane tomes (or teach, etc) until they are bones. Case closed. So lets not talk about them. I'm certainly not. I'm talking about adventuring wizards. Risk assessment and assumption of risk/mitigation strategies to hedge risk is not a zero sum game. You don't just assume all risk (with no mitigation strategies) or assume none. And if you're an adventuring wizard, you're already in the game, so talking about risk aversion is nonsensical. You need/want something and you determine what risk to assume/when and how to minimize its chance for actualization or mitigate it when it manifests. [/QUOTE]

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