Leo
It is not our custom to fight for our gods. Let us not presume to do so now. If their gods are strong, let them fight for themselves.
Chinua Achebe
The risk that feels manageable when you first wake up grows teeth by lunch, not because the facts have changed but because you have spent the morning explaining it to yourself and others. Each telling makes it sound more reasonable, which is exactly what makes it more dangerous. You offer your reasoning like a gift, laying out all the ways this could work, all the safeguards you have considered, speaking as if the enthusiasm in your voice makes the plan more sound. But the people listening hear something different in that brightness, something that makes them lean back instead of forward. The risk was always the same size. The performance of it is what changed.