And what if the consequences are just really, really bad?
"If the consequences are just you, it's one thing.
But if the consequences are great, the teams won't do it".
"I thought, if the consequences are that she's leaving me, then OK, she can go.
Some of this stuff would have been funny if the consequences hadn't been so potentially serious.
It would be hilarious if the consequences hadn't been so terrible.
That is, should the United States withdraw according to a predetermined timetable, even if the consequences appear dire for Iraq?
I broke the chain: I'm proud of that, even if the consequences have been even harder than I'd anticipated".
We were in similar territory to the Edgbaston 2005 dismissal of Australia's Mike Kasprowicz, even if the consequences of these decisions are unlikely to be quite so dramatic.
On the one hand, they provide an ethical framework that allows people, in good conscience, to do something kind or useful even if the consequences are ambiguous.
That ideas have consequences seems to be the moral here, and that one cannot entirely escape one's responsibility even if the consequences are utterly, uncontrollably absurd.
