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Sometimes we do things with the best of intentions only to learn later that we made matters worse. Pick an example of a decision that had just such negative unintended consequences. Some examples include: the 19th century Cobra Bounty in India, retrofitting the Eastland to comply with the Seaman’s Act of 1915, the 18th Amendment, following the Phillips Curve to pay for the Vietnam War, adopting the Hirsch Index in academia, invasive species remediations on Macquarie Island in Australia

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