> A lot of people do risky or silly things when they're teenagers - very few of them pay the price with their lives. This is precisely the nature of risk. We

> A lot of people do risky or silly things when they're teenagers - very few of them pay the price with their lives. This is precisely the nature of risk. We don't live in a deterministic world where everyone who eats slugs dies. If we did, that kid wouldn't have eaten a slug. No, we live in a world with uncertainty. If you eat a slug, almost for sure nothing bad will happen.