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It's not the goal but the value itself (1).

It's strange that we don't a value but a definition of a value.

I totally understand that we need a target to motivate politicians (sad but true).

The problem is that for every politician you motivate by making things up, you also motivate another politician to stop listening to scientists in general. Maybe those other politicians are out of power at the moment, or not even in politics yet at all, but that can change. It's a recipe for deepening the divisions in society. And if / when those other politicians do gain power, they may lash out at the people who were manipulating them.

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