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0 pointsgexla7y ago0 comments

> This makes young people more available to take giant risks with less apprehension (they have less to lose).

Is this a contradiction? How can there be risk if there's nothing to lose?

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Maybe a valid rephrasing would be "This makes young people more able to take actions that older folks with more obligations would consider to be giant risks".

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0 pointsgexla7y ago0 comments

> This makes young people more available to take giant risks with less apprehension (they have less to lose).

Is this a contradiction? How can there be risk if there's nothing to lose?

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Infernal7y ago

Maybe a valid rephrasing would be "This makes young people more able to take actions that older folks with more obligations would consider to be giant risks".

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