One unintended (but foreseeable) consequence of invading Iraq was that it distracted our attention and energy from the far more important undertaking in Afghanistan.
But trying it was worth the risk, because we would begun research and development on a system that someday we would need for a different, but foreseeable threat.
Condemning Zarhum's killing, Human Rights Watch described it as "a tragic but foreseeable outgrowth of a climate in which some Israeli politicians encourage citizens to take the law into their own hands".
But even if one holds that this is a morally significant distinction, it is not clear that it is felicitous to characterize the destruction of spare embryos as an unintended but foreseeable side-effect of creating embryos for fertility treatment.
"The leadership of CA should also accept responsibility for its inadvertent (but foreseeable) failure to create and support a culture in which the will-to-win was balanced by an equal commitment to moral courage and ethical restraint.
Such long-term but foreseeable impacts raise liability and compensation issues, including appropriate discount rates (if any) on future costs and benefits, which, as value-laden choices, also need to be discussed by stakeholder groups.
