[UA] Risk: It's a dessert topping AND a floor wax!

[Nick Wedig]

>2) Entropomancer sees a thuggish looking guy in a bar and as he walks by he
>mutters "I fucked your wife."  What he does not know is that this
>particular thug is deaf.  The danger, being nugatory, is not sufficient to
>yield a charge.  He saw the danger, but the danger wasn't really there.

I really hate to belabor a tired discussion (so just accept my apologies and skip this if you no longer care) but this example doesn't seem (to me) to work. 

There was a possibility that the man could hear the comment and that he would attack the bodybag.  So the bodybag was at risk.  If this example is acceptable, then we can extend identical logic to a case where the man could hear, but is actually a nice guy despite his rough appearance and decides not to harm the bodybag, thus no charge.  And on from there.  Which is to say that any place no damage occurs there was no actual risk, which is to eliminate chance from charge gaining, which defeats the purpose.

Mr. Teapot
will stop now

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