I approve of the government considering and honestly stating the repercussions of their actions rather than acting only on principle and disregarding what their principles do, or considering the repercussions of their actions and then lying about them for political gain.
When that occurs and when I’ve tried to pick through to the actual repercussions of the government policy when it far more often doesn’t, then I tend to pick the government representative or policy whose repercussions I like better, bearing in mind the overall trustworthiness from the previous assessment.
This is similar to “I approve of government doing what is good” except that there is an obvious counter argument to that “What if the government doing what is good has bad reprecussions?” and I think this formulation attempts to address that.
I approve of the government considering and honestly stating the repercussions of their actions rather than acting only on principle and disregarding what their principles do, or considering the repercussions of their actions and then lying about them for political gain.
When that occurs and when I’ve tried to pick through to the actual repercussions of the government policy when it far more often doesn’t, then I tend to pick the government representative or policy whose repercussions I like better, bearing in mind the overall trustworthiness from the previous assessment.
This is similar to “I approve of government doing what is good” except that there is an obvious counter argument to that “What if the government doing what is good has bad reprecussions?” and I think this formulation attempts to address that.