Some decisions are sane. By this I mean: some decisions are things you would choose to do with full knowledge of all options and reasonable knowledge of potential ramifications, based on an analysis of how likely each possibility would be to increase the success of the general project it is a part of.
We don’t make sane decisions all the time, and we don’t need to. Sometimes, we make perverse decisions — we ignore sanity or (optimize for as little sanity as possible) in order to achieve some external goal that conflicts with the ostensible goal of the project…
