Of course: we would be reckless, as would Taipei, if we did not take them into consideration.

Most of the time, it's good to have a president who isn't a captive of his emotional temperature and doesn't say rash things.

And, like climate change, it may be foolhardy to ignore any of them.

Had I been a few hours sooner, Mrs Linton's illness might have arrested her rash step.

The lesson we life hackers must learn from this is that recklessness has no place in life.