No matter how remote the risk, is it not worth paying almost anything not to fry?

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It's not worth the risk to life and it's not worth the money, because there is absolutely no benefit to getting on that people-smuggler's boat.

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From a classical risk-reward perspective, it is simply not worth it.

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However poor you are, villagers are being told, it is not worth the risk to go foraging in the uncleared forests for food.

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This immense Caribbean project suggests that just because an enterprise is too ambitious it doesn't mean that it's not worth the risk.

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