The obvious (and rational!) response is that “it seems like the sort of thing that could work” is a grossly insufficient reason to do anything remotely resembling what’s described in the OP, especially given the massive harms of the intervention in question. It just doesn’t even approach being a sufficient reason. It’s not even in the same ballpark as a sufficient reason. The relative scales of harms to be mitigated, certainty of mitigation, and harms inflicted by the intervention, are orders of magnitude off from where they’d have to be for that to be a sufficient reason.
The obvious (and rational!) response is that “it seems like the sort of thing that could work” is a grossly insufficient reason to do anything remotely resembling what’s described in the OP, especially given the massive harms of the intervention in question. It just doesn’t even approach being a sufficient reason. It’s not even in the same ballpark as a sufficient reason. The relative scales of harms to be mitigated, certainty of mitigation, and harms inflicted by the intervention, are orders of magnitude off from where they’d have to be for that to be a sufficient reason.