Is that being a prudent person?
And what is a prudent person?
My guess is that the typical defaulter today is not some prudent individual who happened to buy a home that strains his paycheck.
The dramatic shift from concluding that even prudent individuals should not consider circumcision, to an endorsement of circumcision as a public health intervention to prevent female to male transmission seems to presuppose the view that the RCT evidence is the only evidence that matters.
A second general line of argument in favor of universal access to some forms of health care builds on the idea that prudent individuals would insure themselves against the prospect of needing certain kinds of health care.
The justificatory question "why be moral?" is transformed into the less troubling question "why be rational?" Second, even if we recognize that moral reasons are, in some sense, genuine, contractarians like Kavka also want to show that prudent individuals, not independently motivated by morality would have reason to reflectively endorse morality.
Police will find that considering a suspect's age in delivering Miranda warnings is a prudent safeguard for that individual's rights and also for their work.
Voter ignorance wouldn't matter much if a democracy were able to weave individual votes into collective political wisdom, the way a market weaves the self-interested buy-and-sell decisions of individual actors into a prudent collective allocation of resources.
Monitoring a public Web site may be a prudent police practice, but then placing individual names appearing on the Web site in a database without a reasonable suspicion of suspected or actual criminal activity is, as Mr. Levin argues, not only "antithetical to the values of the... United States" but should also be prohibited.
Yet he admits that individuals do not always make a prudent choice.
A prudent evaluation of the evidence would therefore suggest that, if individual members of a chemical grouping of pesticides have been documented as neurotoxic, then all members of that group should be considered to be neurotoxic as well.
