Recklessness: acting despite awareness or obvious risk, judged by what an ordinary prudent person would have foreseen. The concept of reckless conduct denotes acting heedless of known or obvious risks; it ranges from failing to consider any risk to recognizing a risk and proceeding regardless. The assessment uses both subjective awareness and an objective standard-whether circumstances would have alerted an ordinary prudent person to the possibility of the harm and whether that risk was substantial enough not to be treated as negligible. A person is reckless if they either did not consider the risk or, having recognized it, chose to proceed.