> An obvious example is civil unrest which is often a good reason not to implement liberal/libertarian policies in many places. It's only a good reason because

> An obvious example is civil unrest which is often a good reason not to implement liberal/libertarian policies in many places. It's only a good reason because there are other good reasons to implement those policies too. Civil unrest would not be a good reason to begin beheading petty criminals, no matter how scared people were of being pick-pocketed. I'll give it to you that it is a matter of degrees, but the amount of fear that would be required to outweigh even the smallest iota of real benefit would have to be enormous. If robot trucks saved just one life per year on average, it would be morally unacceptable to obstruct their implementation even if they induced the same amount of fear as all the fears of planes crashing and terrorist attacks.