Quite often good things have harmful consequences… men have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.
We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
If people dying as a consequence of the implementation of measures cannot count as evidence that the legislation has detrimental effects, what would?
Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
She who means no mischief does it all.
