Unintended consequences: outcomes that are not the ones intended by a purposefulaction. The recent political campaign commercials went something like this: "My opponent, John 'Adolph' Smith, has been twisted from an early age. As a child, he was a member of the 'He-Man Woman-Hater's Club.' Since then, he has hated women and old people, and he has regularly tortured cats. This seems odd, since he is a direct descendant of the 'Fat Cat' Smiths who used to own slaves and run a toxic, iron-ore smelting factory (which no doubt poisoned our local water supply for thousands of years). Ifelected, he and his rich friends will engage in child molestation behind the walls of their gated estates, all the while seizing your homes by eminent domain and requiring the populace to attend church four times per week."
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