Exactly!
As a small business owner who has to make decisions daily, some of which are far-reaching, I MUST look at situations and ask: What is the best scenario? What is the worst scenario?
I contend that almost all business decisions are risk/reward.
I almost never hear our politicians (especially here in California!) discuss possible "unintended consequences," and it is that that always kills us.
In my business, if I were to always put a positive spin on everything, I would soon be out of business ...because there are REAL consequences to my decisions, and these most certainly include the unintended consequences.
In a practical sense, we need a lot more pragmatic business owners running for office and a whole lot fewer lawyers. Ah, but I digress...
In a very real way I think liberals are demented, in that they literally cannot conceive of bad things happening in the first place. In the second place, they cannot conceive bad things would ever happen to them. And in the third, and this one is the scariest of all, they literally cannot believe that the actions liberals take can cause harm to others.
Their world view is twisted.