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Intentions and outcomes can certainly be different, but I think intentions provide a higher floor for the downside risk.

> but I think intentions provide a higher floor for the downside risk.

The quote at the end was supposed to convey the opposite message.

I think the risk C.S. describes there is the endless nature of the torment, not the severity. Stung by gadflies, not dismembered by a nemesis.