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In medicine, we quickly learn that what matters is outcomes-not intent to help. Things are too important to think otherwise.
In politics-that distinction is often blurred. Programs that claim to improve education but dont. The war on poverty that failed to lower poverty. The war on drugs.
Intent often is seen as somehow benevolent and superior to whatever the actual outcomes are. Rhetoric is used as a shield to objective failure, turning questions of fact into questions of motive, etc.
What do you say?
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