Are Safe Until They Aren't

Float Like An Iceberg

Occupy Attention

Repel

danger

ambition

etymology

hazard

is an uncontrollable, external force, one that emerges from outside of a system, network or social contexts (as opposed to risk, which is a threat produced within a system).

Luhmann defines danger as an external force, one that emerges from outside of one's systems, networks or social contexts. Because danger enters from the environment, it is uncontrollable. One's actions have no effect on whether danger will exist or not. Risk, on the other hand, is a threat produced within a system... one's actions can allow the risk to come to fruition' (Gershon 2005:109).

is as external force originating external to the system. Risk is produced within the system.

 takes infinite forms, and 'safety' too numbers among them.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is an event which a timid person is frightened before, a coward person during, and a courageous person after.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. Jean Paul

is essential to the good life. Living dangerously is living correctly.

Live dangerously and you live right. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is at its greatest when when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

is solely capable of acquainting us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong. Friedrich Nietzsche

is the primordial brine out of which 'risk' develops.

(jib) that more or less non-discursive soup from which a discursive, human-oriented 'risk' develops out of

danger, n.All

danger