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We will need a mass of courageous people willing to reimagine the norms of our society if we are to shift South Africa's ingrained culture of violence.
There are multiple approaches to implementing precaution in riskmanagement, but no such thing as a universal "precautionaryprinciple." A subjective concept such as the precautionaryprinciple can lead to two major perils. One is that technologicalinnovation will be stifled, hindering economic progress. The secondperil, more subtle, is that public health and the environment wouldbe harmed as the energies of regulators are diverted from known orplausible hazards to speculative and ill-founded ones.