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An instrument rating will certainly help your skills and confidence as well as mitigate the possibility of an incident due to continued VFR flight into IMC but it will NOT substitute for sound judgement.

IMHO the most dangerous pilot out there is one with the ink still wet on his/her instrument temp certificate, their own airplane and a plane load of family members, coworkers or friends with "get-home-itis".

Once you're in the soup it's a lot easier to end up in bad stuff (turbulence, convection, icing, etc). Make sure that your instrument training spends just as much time (more!) on meteorology and aeronautical decision-making as on practice approaches and mechanics.

Being IFR rated can certainly keep you out of some trouble, but it can land you in much worse trouble if you're not careful.

Fly safely!