Political action under urgency is a form of bluffing about outcomes

Evidence

“First, you’ve got to speak, because the matter is urgent; aft erwards events prove you right or wrong. ‘And that’s precisely what’s known as bluffi ng,’ he said unhappily to himself. ‘Yes, even I bluff my readers’” (Man, 175). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 490

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the ethic of editorial influence — how institutions that shape opinion operate on admitted uncertainty, relevant to contemporary media independence debates.
• XREF: connects to: Political deliberation differs from philosophical conversation because decision deadlines constrain it — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 97; Deterrence can operate as an unintended byproduct of other actions — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 422

Broader Connections

• Deterrence can operate as an unintended byproduct of other actions #expands (0.78) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 422