If there's no connection ...

If there's no connection between the tactic and the result you're trying to achieve, and if in the process you can damage other people who are in fact innocent in the whole situation, I think you ought to re-examine whether what you're doing makes sense.
 Allard K. Lowenstein

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The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
 Allard K. Lowenstein