{"id":186140146,"date":"2010-11-25T09:35:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T09:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=186140146"},"modified":"2010-11-25T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T09:35:46","slug":"americas-new-disease-aversion-to-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=186140146","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s New Disease: Aversion To Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; But what should we expect in a society that requires adults to wear bicycle helmets while pedaling in the park, provides disclaimers of liability on TV advertisements, or prints warnings on fast-food coffee cups? The name of the game is zero risk. Not risk mitigation, or accepting responsibility for one\u2019s actions, but risk aversion. It\u2019s a failure to acknowledge that we can\u2019t protect against everything bad that can happen to us, so we must protect against everything we think might \u2014 might \u2014 be harmful at some point.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/infosecurity.us\/?p=17881\">https:\/\/infosecurity.us\/?p=17881<\/a>oldId.20101125093546423<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; But what should we expect in a society that requires adults to wear bicycle helmets while pedaling in the park, provides disclaimers of liability on TV advertisements, or prints warnings on fast-food coffee cups? The name of the game is zero risk. Not risk mitigation, or accepting responsibility for one\u2019s actions, but risk aversion. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=186140146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;America\u2019s New Disease: Aversion To Risk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186140146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186140146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186140146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186140146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186140146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186140146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186140146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}