I guess I’ve gone off into the abstract argument about whether we should care about optics or not. I don’t mean to assert that buying Wytham Abbey was a good thing to do, I just think that we should argue about whether it was a good thing to do, not whether it looks like a good thing to do.
I’m arguing that deciding whether or not it is a good thing should include the PR impact (i.e. a weak consequentialist approach). I don’t care if things look bad, unless that perception leads bad outcomes. In this case, I think the perception could lead to bad outcomes that dominate the good outcomes in the expected value calculation
I guess I’ve gone off into the abstract argument about whether we should care about optics or not. I don’t mean to assert that buying Wytham Abbey was a good thing to do, I just think that we should argue about whether it was a good thing to do, not whether it looks like a good thing to do.
I’m arguing that deciding whether or not it is a good thing should include the PR impact (i.e. a weak consequentialist approach). I don’t care if things look bad, unless that perception leads bad outcomes. In this case, I think the perception could lead to bad outcomes that dominate the good outcomes in the expected value calculation