I think it's quite funny how the "unintended consequences" people love to highlight every unintended consequence or ineffective intervention, but also have zero interest in finding out why the interventions did not work out as planned. Wouldn't this be a great starting point for scientific research?

If I'm investigating a bug and find that the program is still misbehaving after my fix, my usual reaction is to dig deeper, find out what I missed or how my fix changed the program's execution. My reaction would not be "eh, better not fix anything at all".

> Most of those are left-coded failures, so here are some right-coded failures:

"I'm neither left nor right, I'm just an apolitical neoliberal..."