On Debate of Political Theories

Telling bad policy, bad political theories or models, from good is not hard — does it harm innocent people? Ah, you say, but at a certain level of goverment all policy harms someone.

The test is, when we find a particular innocent person harmed, what is the response?

A good model will include value for transparency and investigation into the harm done, will try to rectify it both in a case by case and on a more general level.

A bad one will try to shut up the person and the reporter, stonewalling and then attacking, perhaps retaliating and in the extreme, disappearing both into secret prisons.

Whatever the theory is, whatever the supposed benefit, here is the acid test.

A theory is disproven by its failure to respond reasonably to harm done to an individual.

And rather than debate further, I have some cases to address.