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One would ask the age old question, is being a risk-taker a good trait, or a negative trait? With overall positives and negatives, it's safe to say being a risk-taker has a more negative outcome. Taking risks can very much effect one's mind, if one's a slave like Fredrick Douglass. Or bring someone down emotionally, for example, Naomi Sepiso. Some might rebel this statement, but there are many ways to prove that risk-taking is a negative trait.

Starting with a firm reason, risk-taking is negative for messing with one's mind. In the poem, "The narrative life of Frederick Douglass", Douglass wished to learn how to read. Douglass then took the risk of gaining full understandability when gaining knowledge. In the end, The poor man regretted it very much, for it made him feel more durable than the rest, able to take things to heart more.

Efficiently, risk-taking can effect a being's mental state, for the bad. The poem, "So where are you from", is an explicit example. Naomi had the risk of being bullied and mistreated if she told her fellow students where she originally was born. The narrator did tell where her parents came from, but at the cost of being known as a foreigner who can't fit in. In the end, she tried her hardest to culturally fit in, but only to be mocked by her classmates.

Most can critically agree these reasons are fitting for why risk-taking can be seen as a negative trait, yet there is reasonable reasons why risk-taking is positive. The author, Sepiso, did reluctantly told her classmates her parents were from somewhere different, but she eventually became independent. Douglass, who was a slave got to know the beauty's of writing after he escaped using his knowledge.

Although the main reasonings could say the author's had a positive outcome, both lost something more important. For example, the author Douglass mentions, "I often wished myself as a beast, anything to get rid of thinking". Douglass might've been manageable to escape using knowledge, but he was able to process the truth of slavery. The speaker, Sepiso had the ugly truth exposed to her that she will never be able to fit in when she exposed she's a foreigner.

In total, the negative outcomes stack more than the positive outcomes.
((The rest is already copy and pasted so I don't need to put it here. Looking back at this 3 years later, I feel bad for my teacher.))