Freedom, Safety, Risk & Reward

How are the dynamics of freedom, safety, risk and reward all interrelated?

Is it simply a question of how we can always maximize both freedom and reward?

What roles do risk and safety/security play in this system?

Can freedom and security be considered simply both as rewards, each with its own values and merits?

Are freedom and safety (not) nevertheless zero-sum related, more of one entailing less of the other?

How are freedom and risk-taking related?

Does risk-taking (not) by definition always mean less security?

The concept of risk can mean:
1)the probability of something bad occurring ("frequency") and/or
2)how bad that bad thing can be ("amplitude")
What implications do each of these two different types of risk carry regarding both freedom and security?

How are freedom, risk and recklessness interrelated?

What does the concept "freedom to make the best choices" mean?

Is individual freedom at the expense of safety (not) over-prioritized in our current world culture (possibly in some regional cultures more than in others)?

Or, seemingly contrarily, is our culture/society in fact overly-obsessed about safety?

Is it true (or not) that risk-taking always leads to greater potential reward?

Is risk-taking nowadays - possibly as a result of (and/or to promote) capitalist culture? - (not) ethically overvalued?

Are some regional cultures in today's world more reward-driven (for example, to become rich, glamorous, famous and powerful) than others? What should be our ideal culture/attitudes regarding rewards and the earning of rewards?

What values should we give to freedom, risk, reward and safety in a war situation?

In our society/world, should there be fewer or more rules with regards to risk-taking, security and reward?

Photo of free solo climber Alex Honnold (practising an activity that should - or should not? - be illegalized?)