“…For this reason, some authors think that in the end, the PP must be grounded in morality instead of purely instrumental rationality. However, while the moral obligation of not playing Russian roulette on someone else's head admits no trade-offs, public decision-making about the development of potentially dangerous activities is all about trade-offs between the precautionary moral obligation and the rest of our values, goals and needs: public decision-making does not always hon-8 Petrenko & McArthur (2011) think that only a deontological perspective can provide this moralist conception of the PP with the status of a principle. Certainly, act-consequentialism acknowledges only one principle, which is to act to promote the best consequences, and nothing warrants that, other things being equal, not imposing unconsented risk on others will always bring about the best consequences.…”