"If there’s any possible way that an action could harm someone — no matter how unlikely the scenario is, how small the harm might be, or how easily it might be mitigated — there will exist people who demand that nobody take that action... This is what I call 'the tyranny of the edge case.'"

"Sometimes you have to hurt people" by Jeremiah Johnson in The Argument https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/sometimes-you-have-to-hurt-people

I'm tempted to compile a few different things I've read over the years into a list called "The Tradeoff Reader." The overall theme would be that, yes, tradeoffs exist in policymaking, and we need to acknowledge the tradeoffs that any particular path is making.