We could talk/write about this for hours,but there can be no guaranteed perfect answer because there are so many immeasurable factors and if we had all those answers it would still be a personal value judgement.
As often happens, just today in his column in National Review, Kevin Williamson puts it better than I ever could: "government is not there to provide us with moral uplift or a national sense of meaning. Government is there to plow the goddamned roads."
We could talk/write about this for hours,but there can be no guaranteed perfect answer because there are so many immeasurable factors and if we had all those answers it would still be a personal value judgement.
We have discussed that in depth- what has the collateral damage of this past year been?
Trouble is the greater good is usually in the eye of the beholder (the one who profits the most)
As often happens, just today in his column in National Review, Kevin Williamson puts it better than I ever could: "government is not there to provide us with moral uplift or a national sense of meaning. Government is there to plow the goddamned roads."