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by saiya-jin 3672 days ago
and that, my friend, is exactly what I meant when nice ideals hit reality. it never ends as it was intended, and extremely rarely for the better
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I agree that good intentions can have bad consequences, but in this particular case I'd say the bad consequences were easy to predict before the attempt was made. It's possible to remove ideas that are obviously bad to make problems less likely.