That's not a quantitative assessment, that's a qualitative assessment, and that's what the other commenter is objecting to. If you quantify the risk associated

That's not a quantitative assessment, that's a qualitative assessment, and that's what the other commenter is objecting to. If you quantify the risk associated with one activity as 100, and you quantify the risk of another activity as 5, and you then describe the first activity as bad, and the second as less bad, while that might be perfectly true, you've lost a lot of information in the assessment.