User blog comment:AmazingPythor/Important: Demotion of Veralann/@comment-26425232-20170309144727/@comment-5510093-20170310010159

@Brick it's a lot more like

''Person A: Hey, uh, I might bring an elephant through your house later today, some of my friends asked me to. I'll see what I can do.

Person B: Huh, maybe I should take some precautions to stop an elephant from trampling my house?

Person C: Hey why are you boarding up your house the guy didn't say he WAS going to do it what are you getting worked up about''

Any action taken as a preventative measure can definitely be made while still having limited information about what someone ACTUALLY is going to do. You can never tell what someone is actually going to do, so you work with what you do know.