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If we do believe they might really happen, they are [[worst cases]].
If we do believe they might really happen, they are [[worst cases]].


The reason to do [[brainstorming]] to outline threats is the same as to outline [[visions]]:  It establishes clearly the limits of what you do and don't believe in, making [[use case]] analysis more efficient and guiding the writing of new [[Consumerium:User Stories|stories]], while still letting you think "out of the box", construct stories and useful [[conceptual metaphor]], etc..  And, it reveals what you are thinking about the extremes of good and bad, in case someone else reads it and says "hey wait a minute I *do* believe in that..." in which case they move it to [[best cases]] or [[worst cases]].  To do this in a disciplined way makes it really clear where our various ideas of reality converge and where they do not.
The reason to do [[brainstorming]] to outline threats is the same as to outline [[visions]]:  It establishes clearly the limits of what you do and don't believe in, making [[use case]] analysis more efficient and guiding the writing of new [[Consumerium:User Stories|stories]], while still letting you think "out of the box", construct stories and useful [[conceptual metaphor]], etc..  It lets you list [[bad thing]]s without getting into a lot of rhetoric about it.
 
It also reveals what you are thinking about the extremes of good and bad, in case someone else reads it and says "hey wait a minute I *do* believe in that..." in which case they move it to [[best cases]] or [[worst cases]].  To do this in a disciplined way makes it really clear where our various ideas of reality converge and where they do not.  Persistent differences in this might make it obvious where [[faction]]s are.


Here are some threats:
Here are some threats:
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