> The wrong question: "Is X bad?". The right question: "Is X worse than the alternative if X wasn't allowed?". While you're not wrong in many cases, you do hav

> The wrong question: "Is X bad?". The right question: "Is X worse than the alternative if X wasn't allowed?". While you're not wrong in many cases, you do have to be careful with making this sort of rubric your universal rule. It can trap you in a local maximum that is vastly inferior to what things could be if you acknowledged that and were willing and able to accept the temporary reduction in quality to move to what is, objectively a better situation.