Wednesday Question: One of Precaution

Generally, we are the "authors" of "content" around here - "here" being a blog and not a message board. Recognize, we do, that you've come here not to contribute, but to consume. Nevertheless, there is the sporadic occasion where, either for our benefit or for to exercise the thinkifiers of the masses, we ask you a question. Typically, we do this on Tuesday, but we got kinda lazy about it yesterday. Today's question is . . .