[Tristan Lall]

I'm not sure exactly what kind of "research writing" you're going for. Is it supposed to be a proposal for academic research where you lay out the phenomena of interest, and describe the things about them that you'd like to study further? Is it intended to be a piece of research, where you collect evidence and come to a conclusion? (I assume that you'd be interpreting others' data, since you didn't mention that you'd collected anything.) Or is it something else? I'd approach it in very different ways, depending on the objectives and the scope.

In general, you should probably address what's best for society (without unduly infringing upon individuals' rights). Is FIRST (FRC?) the optimal use of resources in pursuit of social welfare, given all the possible alternatives? That's obviously an impractical question for all sorts of reasons, and conventionally, one would break it up and simplify it with assumptions, to make it manageable as a piece of research. In selecting a few ideas to represent the larger picture, you need to be systematic about the choices you make. What conditions, if true, would invalidate the benefits of FIRST? Can any of those conditions exist, and if so, how? How likely are they, and how much risk can we tolerate?