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Sep 14, 2015 at 6:11 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/643306038536613888
Sep 12, 2015 at 6:57 answer added user86291 timeline score: 0
Sep 11, 2015 at 7:39 comment added rism In your opening sentence you say "[might] be bad", but in your closing sentence you say "[knew] .. negative outcome". Those are two different starting points for the decision to do x and therefore have two different motivations.
Sep 11, 2015 at 7:31 comment added rism If risk is a key element, then "to chance your arm" might be appropriate. But this phrase infers the potential for some gain, so if you're leaning more towards deliberate self destruction then "chancing your arm" doesn't apply.
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Sep 9, 2015 at 23:39 answer added Luke timeline score: 1
Sep 9, 2015 at 22:56 comment added Beta ...Or is it disregard for (or blindness to) consequences? Or sad, self-destructive behavior? Or... What are the bad foreseeable consequences of going to the cinema, and knowing them, why does he go?
Sep 9, 2015 at 22:28 answer added altaltpow timeline score: 2
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Sep 9, 2015 at 18:30 comment added Ejaz Playing close to chest
Sep 9, 2015 at 17:42 answer added A B timeline score: 4
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Sep 9, 2015 at 7:04 comment added MvG How likely is the bad outcome? Does he do the action in question because the benefits (e.g. of knowing for certain) outweight the risk, or is the risk greater than the benefits but the person feels driven to take that risk anyway?
Sep 9, 2015 at 4:57 comment added Keith Is the behaviour around acting in spite of the negative outcome, or acting to deliberately incite that outcome? And if the latter, is it to gain perverse benefit/pleasure from the effect on others or the person acting?
Sep 9, 2015 at 3:11 answer added Thomas Andrews timeline score: 0
Sep 9, 2015 at 3:06 comment added DA. I tend to call this 'life' :)
Sep 9, 2015 at 0:54 comment added Mitch Can you give the full word for word translation (or the original in Hindi or Urdu)? (so that we can try to get all the nuances straight).
Sep 8, 2015 at 21:26 answer added Matt Campbell timeline score: 15
Sep 8, 2015 at 21:18 answer added delliottg timeline score: 7
Sep 8, 2015 at 21:14 comment added user3293145 @mitch It is an idiom in Urdu/ Hindi language
Sep 8, 2015 at 20:57 answer added Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams timeline score: 9
Sep 8, 2015 at 19:38 comment added Graffito He is a "masochist" if he is gratified by pain, degradation, etc., that is self-imposed or he is a "stoic person" if he accepts what happens without complaining or showing emotion.
Sep 8, 2015 at 19:29 answer added Travis J timeline score: 6
Sep 8, 2015 at 18:40 answer added Sam Friedman timeline score: 3
Sep 8, 2015 at 18:25 comment added GEdgar He is a risk-taker.
Sep 8, 2015 at 18:07 answer added JHCL timeline score: 33
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Sep 8, 2015 at 17:56 comment added Mitch What original language is this?
Sep 8, 2015 at 17:52 history edited Matt E. Эллен CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 8, 2015 at 17:47 answer added Aliakbar Ujjainwala timeline score: 6
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Sep 8, 2015 at 17:33 history asked user3293145 CC BY-SA 3.0