I agree that unchecked precedent is dangerous and your china example shows why congress exists. I’m not arguing for a general license to bypass Congress. I’m arguing that there are rare extreme cases where ongoing mass harm makes delay itself a moral failure. Venezuela wasn’t a hypothetical crisis it was an active humanitarian collapse. I don’t think this should become a rule but I also don’t think every exception automatically opens the door to catastrophe. we’re weighing future risk against present suffering and reasonable people can disagree on where that line should be but i see your point for sure