I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

A judge's decision is to be to be fair, impartial and not according to a whim or fear of the latest opinion poll,

There could be a number of reasons why the number of voters is larger in one ward than the other - there could be more people who actually register, or there could be a discrepancy in the number of children, ... One thing that surprised me is that there have been some huge (housing) developments in the city that I figured would have charged the demographics, but that's not been the case.

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.