Most users are familiar with warnings about risks. They read about hacks, losses, and mistakes, but perceive this information as relating to someone else. There is a sense of distance between knowledge and one’s own reality.
One reason is cognitive biases. A person tends to overestimate their control over a situation and underestimate the likelihood of a negative scenario happening to themselves. The phrase 'this won't happen to me' is rarely spoken aloud, but often underlies their decisions.
Warnings lose their power when overconfidence comes into play. Experience, past successful actions, or lack of negative experience create the illusion of security. At that moment, risk does not disappear — it simply stops being perceived.
The problem is not that people are unaware of the risks. The problem is that knowledge does not translate into behavior. As long as warnings remain abstract, they do not influence decisions and do not change the logic of actions.
Output:
Warnings do not work not because they are wrong, but because people do not relate them to themselves. Safety starts with acknowledging that risk is personal, not theoretical.
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