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FSSF

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20. Missing the point.

Reply to PamW (Reply #14)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 07:58 PM

Jan 2012

They're different types of risk.

A person can accept one type of risk while at the same time refusing another all the while being perfectly rational. Not all risk is the same, logically.

This has nothing to do with "feelings" vs logic.

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