Wretchard wrote: That’s because the link between cause and effect has been broken”

It may be worse than that. The link between cause & effect has been re-wired.

For example, within living memories, a teenage girl getting pregnant outside marriage was a catastrophe — for herself. Consequently, most young women were eager to avoid that fate.

Now, especially in Europe, getting pregnant outside marriage is efectively a career choice for a young woman. She is automatically entitled to income & housing, better than she could earn by working — as long as she stays unmarried.

This rewiring was done with the best of intentions. Only a few young women ever get pregnant outside marriage, so why let them suffer? But the consequence of the rewiring has been to encourage teenage pregnancy on a vast scale and destroy much of the basis of society.

The unintended consequences of trying to be nice will be the end of society. Just as the unintended consequence of falsely claiming “torture” is proving to be death from the skies in a foreign land.