Are the possible risks of rescue missions worth the potential outcome?

I think it depends on what the risks, the situation, what the potential outcome is, and whoever you are asking and their morals. If you are in war and 50 old people, like in their 90s, are captured and the risks are you losing 10 out of the 30 men to get them, than that is not a good risk to take, not to be heartless or anything.

cassius, casca, and their allies plant false documents to manipulate brutus to join their cause to remove caesar. after doing so, they visit brutus at night in his home to persuade him of their views. there they plan caesar's death. brutus is troubled but refuses to confide in his devoted wife, portia. on 15 march, caesar's wife, calpurnia, urges him not to go to the senate. she has had visionary dreams and fears the portents of the overnight storms.

to not go near anything hot