Comment by dannyobrien

Oh man, I was so close.

No, I'm making no "unconditionality" claim here: there are just risks and benefits. Sometimes you're the person in the room highlighting the potential problems. The risk with doing that is that when those problems don't happen, you look like a fool. But someone should raise the problems anyway, because that's part of the risk assessment!

Of course, if the problems do happen, then you get to indulge in "I told you so". But only if you failed to convince anyone at the time.