Taking the downsides of something as seriously as the upsides is another indicator of the maturity of that thing, at least in terms of how society interacts with it.
I'm used to the downsides of being something -- or not being something -- that everyone else is (or isn't).
I hope we'll also look at the downside of not doing something and the upside of helping people pursue freedom and liberty like what is the potential of taking place in Iraq and the democracy there.
In what could be the most controversial part, the order requires the EPA's science advisers to consider the downside of cleaner air rules, something for which industry groups have clamored for years.
Moreover, the potential downside of alienating Wall Street is something this White House has done already.
"As usual we should look to America where companies combine annuities with investment backed by insurance, thereby allowing the customer to benefit from stock market returns safe in the knowledge that there is a level of downside protection should something go wrong drastically".
After all, it has started to supplant other drugs on the radar screens of the criminal justice system, and its reputation for creating a genial glow without medical downsides catches something of the passing decade's desire for guilt-free gladness in the same sort of way that the nervous surge created by cocaine caught the restless energy of the decade before.
Do something different The downside of a booming market is that competition will be fierce.
There are things on which it is good to spend public money, and securing the future of something like Stonehenge is wonderful, but one of the downsides of subsidising windmills is that they damage the countryside.
You get all the thrill of believing something wild without the downside of having to fundamentally change the way you live.
While most transactions have an upside and a downside, when something is free, we forget about the downside.
