And this is still too abstract. Depending on detail of the situation, either decision might be right. For example, I might like to remain where I am, thank you very much.
So I take it that you are heavily supporting the initial post’s “Premise: The only rational answer given the current information is the last one.”
Worse, so far I’ve seen no motivation for the questions of this post, and what discussion happened around it was fueled by making equally unmotivated arbitrary implicit assumptions not following from the problem statement in the post.
Thank you. I didn’t clearly understand the need for the explicit inclusion of motivation before.
Ah. Now I see your point.
The actions of a nation are those which were caused by it’s governance structure like your actions are those which are caused by your brain. A fever or your stomach growling is not your action in the same sense that actions by lower-level officials and large companies are not the actions of a nation—particularly when those officials and companies are subsequently censured or there is some later attempt to rein them in. Actions of the duly recognized head of state acting in a national capacity are actions of the nation unless they are subsequently over-ruled by rest of the governance structure—which is pretty much the equivalent of your having an accident or making a mistake.
A nation has explicit goals when it declares those goals through it’s governance structure.
A nation has implicit goals when it’s governance structure appears to be acting in a fashion resembling rational behavior for having those goals and there is not an alternative explanation.