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He knew that the Quest had a 99% chance of failure
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Nah... logic and reasoning seem to suggest that the quest had a 100% guarantee of failure (or something really close to that).
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while using the Ring to defeat Sauron had a 99% chance of success
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No way. The only person who would really have a chance would be Gandalf and even his chances wouldn't be anywhere close to 99%.
However, the chances of successfully overthrowing Sauron using the Ring still would be higher than the chances of destroying the Ring, so I agree that Boromir's actions were understandable.
I've been sitting here thinking for a while and I'm fairly certain that if I would've been in Boromir's position (I hate to say this) I probably would've tried to take the Ring like he did.