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Risk in Society

            In the last 7 to 8 years, risk or the concept of pure risk has become of increading importance in business management. .
             However before understanding or attempting to interpret the relevance of risk in today's society it is important to understand the evolution of the concept of risk and evolution of society's view of risk and means of controlling it.
             As modern society and modern business become more and more aware of risk and attempt to manage it in different ways (one of those being through insurance), it is important to recognise that there was a time when methods of risk management were no more sophisticated than to have complete faith in God.
             Plato argued that there is an innate goodness in vulnerability. Attempting to control all eventualities in life is not a virtuous quality as it fails to put faith in God to protect and attempts to limit God's ability to punish. .
             Outside of mainstream western society this type of belief is still prevalent. An Islamic belief would be that our relationship with God is mediated through our relationship with nature. Nature can create and destroy as God's will deems necessary. Methods of risk control, such as insurance, are thusly seen as sinful as they attempt to mediate against nature's possibility .
             However in modern society there is a world of risk which is far beyond the realm of predictability. According to Beck, such hazards and risks are "more insidious and messy- than can be encompassed "by the traditional conceptions of risk-. Advancements in technology and industrialisation have led to "undermine and/or cancel- the established "safety systems of provident state's existing risk calculation-.
             Such advancements become intricately complex if not impossible to predict and model.
             Areas such as nuclear power and genetic engineering pose high impact risk of such magnitude that their impacts are impossible to measure in the realm of space and time.
             High impact events such as nuclear disasters, regardless of low a likliehood exists, are "not reducible to the product of probability of occurrence multiplied with the intensity and scope of potential harm-.


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