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A Systems Thinking approach:

- Identify all of the entities involved -- people, places, instruments, environments, etc

- For each of those entities, identify what bigger systems are they part of, and also what smaller systems are they comprised of.

- Enumerate all of these things' relationships to one another

- Consider how the the decision will affect the entities, systems, and relationships, in each of the possible scenarios

- Weigh the benefits and drawbacks from all of those perspectives, and then make the call.