For finite causes, the principle implies no known absurdities.

The principle implies that there is a social responsibility to protect the public from exposure to harm, when scientific investigation has found a plausible risk.

The principle of intensity implies that a student will learn more from the real thing than from a substitute.

The precautionary principle implies an emphasis on the need to prevent such adverse effects.

The well-ordering principle implies every nonempty internal subset of N has a smallest member.

So what does the principle imply about the structure of the companies that supply our livelihood and the governments that rule us?

The principle of conservation of electric charge implies that:

The cosmological principle implies that at a sufficiently large scale, the universe is homogeneous; different places will appear similar to one another.

This principle normally implies that persons acquiring control of a listed company should launch a mandatory bid over the capital held by minority shareholders.

These two principles do not imply any particular form of settlement.