Being good enough to prevent the worst

[...]once we have figured all that out, we also need to consider what we would be willing to sacrifice in order to achieve our goals. Because there is always a price to be paid, and we need to be sure that it is really worth paying. Possible concerns range from the metaphysical-will it compromise our autonomy or agency?-to the more mundane. [...]we may well wonder whether by changing people in such a way that they become capable of solving certain problems, we will also make it harder, or even impossible, for them to solve other problems, which at the moment do not appear so pressing, but which may become so in the future.