PSD.8:4.2 - Vary the decision-changing contents

Ask what the proposal is meant to achieve, why that result matters, and what other way could address the concern. Generate some ideas independently before group discussion when early advocacy could anchor the whole inquiry. Then use differences and objections to construct additional candidates.

Useful prompts include changing the intervention mechanism, obtaining arrangement, scale, timing, resource allocation, or commitment. Consider combining compatible actions, retaining the present arrangement, declining a proposed change, and obtaining information before a larger commitment. These are prompts, not a mandatory taxonomy or a required number of options.

Describe “no new action” against a real baseline. It may still include already authorized maintenance, contractual duties, continuing costs, deterioration, or exposure. It is not a cost-free, consequence-free empty world.

For a staged direction, say what happens first, what later choice remains open, which observation could inform it, and what delay or irreversibility the first commitment introduces. Do not call a probe reversible merely because it is small; obtain the direct feasibility, consent, safety, and recovery premises when they matter.