Risky Ventures

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wilderness Posted: Sat, Jul 4 2009 9:21 AM

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I'm thinking that the more risky a venture is the more illogical and is the increase in perpetual abandonment of self-happiness.

What is a risky venture is, is definitely contextual.  To take the risk to violate natural rights is not about self-happiness or a person's own desire, as some have surmised recently, but is actually an abandonment of a persons desire.  What is easily forgotten, not only empathy, but is the other person and/or consequences of any risk venture.  The more risk a person pursues the increased probability that the action will not be completed.  In businesses the enterprising person is taking a risk, but the end pay-off are willing consumers, so, though it is risky the experiment is testing whether the enterprise will meet the end happiness.  If there are no willing consumers and for the entrepreneur to continue would be to cross the line and abandon the logic of continuing and is an abandonment of everything the entrepreneur has since nothing is regenerating the loses of the entrepreneur.  In other words, will the entrepreneur continue to sustain the unsustainable to the point of having nothing left would verge on being suicidal.

Example:  Option 1.  To steal from a defender product A

                Option 2.  Defender will voluntarily trade product A

Here are the choices.  To choose Option 1 when Option 2 is available is poor judgement and a poor understanding of the choices available.  It is poor due to the probability of achieving the desire to have product A decreases by judging Option 1. is better than Option 2. because by choosing option 2. the ability to acquire product A is less challenging and less risky.  In other words, to choose Option 1. involves more challenges and is more risky.  The challenges come from the defender.  In Option 2. the risk is minimized due to the defender is willingly to give product A in exchange.  In Option 1. the risk is maximized due to the defender is unwillingly to give product A (if the defender would be willing to give product A without an exchange, then that is a gift which is not being questioned now).

Option 1. More risky; the more risk a person tries to pursue the more the person has to abandon logic and abandon their self-desire because it is an act that decreases the probability that they will get what they want and they are putting their own life at risk (being suicidal) if taken to the extreme. 

Option 2. Less risky; the less risk a person tries to pursue the more the person is considering logic and is thinking of themselves because it is an act that increases the probability that they will get what they want and they are not putting their own life at risk if taken to the extreme.

(Self-defense is not risky because there are no other choices to understand and to judge when making the action.)