This implies several imperatives when restrictive measures are proposed: Assess risks and opportunities according to available science, not popular perception.
Protect people’s freedom to experiment, innovate, and progress.The proactionary principle was created as an opposing viewpoint to the precautionary principle, which is based on the concept that consequences of actions in complex systems are often unpredictable and irreversible and concludes that such actions should generally be opposed.
The Proactionary Principle is based upon the observation that historically, the most useful and important technological innovations were neither obvious nor well understood at the time of their invention.
[3] In theory, sufficient study of the variables of any proposed course of action may yield acceptable levels of predictability.
[citation needed] However, the proactionary principle argues that "sufficient study" may in some cases be impractical.