The alternative seems to be recklessness.
Choosing to run an unreasonable risk of a wrongful outcome is only one way of manifesting indifference toward whether it materializes; one may also display this attitude through inadvertent recklessness.
The frequency of erroneously overextending or overly limiting the scope of philosophical principles is due to the inherent risk of recklessness or timidity in inductive generalizations.
He then reinterprets all the other cases of responsible agency, including intended agency, as instances of practical indifference and then brings inadvertent recklessness into the tent.
The stage is then set for a systematic treatment in subsequent chapters of human factors, errors, violations, negligence, recklessness, blame, standards of care, expert witnesses, and compensation to the injured.
In computer-software use, as in all other areas of clinical practice, good intentions alone may be insufficient to insulate recklessness from culpability.
Recklessness is to act knowing that it could cause harm or risk, but not taking this properly into account in deciding whether to act.
Roughly we can distinguish malice, recklessness, negligence, and incompetence.
