But writer and consultant Tim Gill, author of No Fear: Growing Up In A Risk-Averse Society and a former government adviser, believes that bullying is too often "misdiagnosed" and children should be encouraged to stand up for themselves before parents step in.
We applaud the recent efforts of Congress to eradicate or reduce the marriage penalty for those with higher levels of income, but these efforts have overlooked the most at-risk sector of our society: families headed by the working poor.
The result is a conservative, risk-averse culture that holds back the innovation that society needs.
Regulators are aware that bank stockholders have an overriding desire to take more risk than is good for society because chronic under-pricing of government guarantees makes it profitable for banks to seek risky assets and lever them as much as possible.
But it's hard to tell exactly where society comes down on the balancing the risk-benefit scale.
Colleges and universities, once among the most forward-looking and border-challenging segments of our society, now risk become static backwaters of political correctness.
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If a society doesn't have strong property rights, risk-taking declines.
So demonizing what may be the only source of vegetables and fruit for those with the fewest resources in society on the basis of a non-existent health risk is just sickening, metaphorically and literally.
Most single mothers operate under extreme social and economic impediments -- triple the poverty rate of the rest of the population, the highest rate of low-wage employment, the worst wage gap, the lowest net worth, the highest risk of bankruptcy -- that add up to a massive inequality in American society.
The criminal-justice system needs to recognize that carrying a gun illegally imposes a risk of serious harm to society.
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Given past experience, any conservative politician should recognize that the problem with open immigration into a democracy, especially a democracy with a burgeoning welfare state, is the risk to civil society from an electoral transformation that not only outweighs, but threatens, any long-term economic benefit.
Furthermore, lest anyone simplistically respond that Africans just emerging from conflicts need peacebuilding, not the accoutrements of armed security, it is worth recalling that acclaimed development economist Paul Collier and his colleague Anke Hoeffler found in their study on Military Expenditure in Post-Conflict Society that in the first five years after a peace agreement a given country's estimated risk of renewed conflict is about 44 percent.
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