The agreement is <i>supposed to be</i> a chain. The things in it are supposed to be related in some way, otherwise why are they together? Dumping many completely unrelated things into the same agreement so that things that should not pass have to be passed in order to do things people want <i>is</i> the thing so egregiously bad that it outweighs everything else. It&#x27;s a chain with a link so weak it doesn&#x27;t even exist.<p>Otherwise you could take an agreement which is net +1000, add absolute garbage to it until it&#x27;s net +0.5 and then argue that we should still pass it because the net result is still positive. Which, compared to the alternative of throwing away the net +0.5 agreement and insisting on the net +1000 agreement, is net -999.5.