Politicians and wonks do not have their “hearts in the right place”!
Clark’s Law: “Sufficiently advanced incompetence is functionally indistinguishable from malice.”
(I can’t find the true source.)
How many “
inadvertent” creations of terrorist groups, “mistaken” wars”, faulty assumptions, “failed socialism”, the cycle of crime, etc. etc. do we need to see the
truth of things? “
Pesik reisha velo yamus?!“
Psychologist Dr. Alfred Adler said it is often easier to determine man’s inner state of mind by observing the ex-post result of his choices, assuming the results were, in fact, intentional, and working back from there. [source needed]
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
(Milton Friedman)
Modern “gun control” indeed thins the herd by enabling private murderers. This “disproportionately” harms the poor, who cannot afford armed guards, and are often government wealth-redistribution net “beneficiaries”. This helps lower socialism’s immense costs, same as abortion, euthanasia, eugenics, family planning, etc.
This is too painful to elaborate much.