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Herring
on March 2, 2009
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After the newspapers die, who will watch the polic...
Motives are irrelevant. The only important question is whether outcomes are socially beneficial. I assume we evolved to look at motives because they're a good predictor, but today's society is somewhat more complex than the african savannah.
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