Unintended Consequences of Oklahoma/Virginia Personhood Law: USA Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions To curry favor with religious right and anti-abortionist, lawmakers in Oklahoma have passed a personhood law – basically defining a fertilized human egg as a person, so that its destruction by any medical or contraceptive procedure is criminalized. Accepting the […]
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Unintended Consequences of SF Ban on Smoking Plus no Ashtrays: USA
Recently there was an interesting article in SF Examiner http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/02/city-wants-kick-habit-won-t-allow-ashtrays regarding City of San Francisco banning smoking PLUS banning businesses from keeping ashtrays. This is in the mistaken belief that ashtrays will promote smoking. So now cleaning up/sweeping cigarette butts near their shops is major headache for the shopkeepers. This is classic example of NOT anticipating unintended consequences […]
Unintended Consequences of Anti-Corruption Campaign in India vs. Others
India has been in the midst of an anti-corruption campaign led by a Anna Hazare. Anna’s campaign has struck with most Indian, sick as they are of the massive corruption they experience on a daily basis. The amount of corruption seems to have been greater than the economic growth that India has achieved in the […]
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