Most problems that have hard line solutions, i.e. drugs and crime, have much cheaper alternatives which are usually much less hard line and much more humane. Th

Most problems that have hard line solutions, i.e. drugs and crime, have much cheaper alternatives which are usually much less hard line and much more humane. This also includes a lot of hard line management theories about how to get the most work out of workers. Better and more humane treatment of people usually leads to better and cheaper results... and better overall outcomes. These are usually arrived at by idealists and dismissed by rationalists and supposed realists.