re: If you choose to expose yourself to risk, don't you deserve the consequence?

When I think of "deserve" as an adjective to describe someone I tend to think of someone that worked hard to achieve a goal as being deserving of an honors they then receive. In a negative way, I think people are deserving of consequences when they have a pattern of misbehaving.

Simply making a poor choice does not mean that someone deserves the worst possible outcome. My reasoning is that we all have different abilities to not only perceive risk but to tolerate it. Therefore it's hard to criticize someone's decision when you don't know all of the variables it took for that person to make it.