Living is a risk. The chance of toxicity occurring in new plants is possible but quite small, but it's not likely to kill you, just make you sick. Full recovery is highly likely.
Life in perfect safety is not worth much to many people (inc. me), and indeed not possible unless you have a large cushion of money. Your small-c conservatism is fine for you and I won't judge you on it, but please don't expect it of others.
You seem to have misunderstood me as being in favor of perfect safety. I'm happy to eat a weird berry. This was meant as a joke about the excessively careful warning he put at the end of his post and how it didn't seem to jibe with the worldview he was otherwise advocating.
Life in perfect safety is not worth much to many people (inc. me), and indeed not possible unless you have a large cushion of money. Your small-c conservatism is fine for you and I won't judge you on it, but please don't expect it of others.