On the other hand, if you already have a significant background risk, then the reward-risk of taking additional smaller one can be proportionally fairly high.
If you have a chance you’ll eat a bomb tomorrow, you will be more likely to gleefully do that dangerous-ish experiment today. Living the life to its full potential includes taking such risks.
Hello hubris, my old friend
I’ve come to play with you again
Because a vodka vision softly creeping
Left its sequels while I was sleeping
And the stupor that was planted in
my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of cancer