[saxordhd] When do the ends justify the means?

Instead of trying to answer this age-old philosophical question correctly once and for all, pick a policy to be used to make decisions related to that question, and stick with it until one officially modifies the policy.

We need a language for specifying such policies, perhaps a way of quantifying the cost of the means, and the benefit of the ends.

We also need to record instances of the policy being exercised.

This way, policies and their effects can be compared and hopefully improved over time.