342 – Unintended consequences / Past, present, and futile

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00:07 Unintended consequences… : unintended consequences, intentions, flat fee health care reform worse than before, unforeseen consequences of purposeful action, Adam Smith, Robert K Merton, intending social change, positive-negative-opposite consequences, unintended consequence of tipping the outhouse, Weeping consequences over the willow, coach’s rules
14:50 …With the best of intentions: Perry Spencer’s unintended chocolate discovery, DDT, Rachel Carson – The Silent Spring, unintended consequence of the DDT ban, unintended consequence of zero tolerance policies, unanticipated consequences of Terry Fox’s marathon run
28:28 Best on intentions: John Macmurray: philosophy, action, intentions, consequences through time, thought, knowledge, future-present-past, good vs evil, moral vs immoral, right vs wrong
42:20 Past, present, and futile: the determined, the existent, the indeterminate, time, causality, human action, intention, philosophy vs science, political left and right, community 55:57 END