"I would rather risk" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to express a preference for taking a chance or facing a potential danger rather than avoiding it. Here is an example: "I know getting on a plane is scary, but I would rather risk flying than miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
"I would rather risk malaria than fill my body with chemicals every day for more than a year," he said.
"I would rather risk public outrage than do nothing to help the court in ensuring that justice is served".
I would be lying if I said that I was entirely comfortable travelling as a lone female to and through some of these places, but I would rather risk it than never see them; so, deep breath, money belt secured and into the final stages of preparation.
Matthews may well be right that there is only one way to be sure something is not performed but I think I would rather risk the howls of protest from the cemetery than risk the loss of even one score, like the Sibelius, that might immeasurably enrich our lives.
I would rather risk failing and being in last place than be comfortably in second place.
"I'd rather risk having her tamed than forgotten," said Tom McGrath, publisher of U.S. Catholic, the social justice monthly that first proposed the idea.
On Twitter, Douthat wrote, "I'd rather risk defeat at my enemies' hands than turn my own cause over to a incompetent tyrant".
While I may be breaking the law in doing so, I'd rather risk paying a fine where the amount is clearly set out on paper than to try communicating with downbeat bus drivers.
"I think I'd rather risk it all and bring about jobs for similar types of people," she said.
Perhaps in sixty years we'll know for sure it's safe, and I will have spent my life at only sixty percent brain-capacity - but I'd rather risk that than brain damage.
To make things worse, Coker responded to that criticism in the way that Black Americans are so often used to hearing from white creatives that represent Black culture poorly: "I'd rather risk people being angry than not do it at all," Coker tweeted.
