"There might be unintended consequences – you'd have to think through the issues, particularly in tourism areas like the Gold Coast," he said.
"If you truly believed there was a threat of consequence, you would have done it," he said.
As a consequence, you would expect larger effects from uncontrolled conditions, not adjusting for non-specific effects as compared to a placebo-controlled trial.
If you knew the consequences beforehand, you'd still go for it because of what it is".
"But there would also be consequences in how you would run the schedule and the commercial decisions you'd make and whether you could run the [public service] remit at the same time.
"[It's] very, very serious, and in the normal course would subject somebody in this position to every manner of investigation, with all the consequences you can imagine that would follow".
"You can't repair slavery and its consequences with reparations as you would fix a car that had an accident," Mr. Wade said.
I was a middle child and, I'm sure, prone to inexplicable shows of emotion, but my overwhelming memory is that if you chose to use those words, the consequences were not things you would want to live with".
Sentencing the six men today, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC said: "Apart from the immediate consequences and the terror you would have caused, an attack of this kind risks starting a spiral of tit-for-tat violence - the very action and reaction that you spoke of.
If you could do whatever you wanted, with no consequences, what would you do?
