And who will remind us that women can never feel truly safe in a nation in which entitled, hate-peddling bullies can hurl sexist insults without suffering a tangible consequence?
The Mule, from debut co-directors Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson, extends that same essential premise – a character chooses not to commit an ordinary action in fear of suffering an extraordinary consequence – and dowses it with body fluids.
I certainly nodded when he spoke of us being "caught up in a revolution" and "as a consequence" suffering "a certain amount of chaotic turbulence".
As the foundation says, they need to be discouraged from hoarding and made to realise that someone further down the generational chain is suffering as a consequence.
"Unless we act now to boost the quality of early years education, it will be a decade or more before we see every five-year-old arriving at school ready to learn – with thousands of children suffering as a consequence.
Cook's captaincy has also come under the spotlight – with his batting seemingly suffering as a consequence – in what has been his first series defeat since taking over the reins just over a year ago.
The law, they said, is "critical to address serious criminal, environmental problems Arizona has been suffering as a consequence of illegal immigration and the lack of effective enforcement activity by the federal government".
If that were not enough to contend with, the fitness of some international referees has been called into question in recent months, with suggestions from New Zealand coaches Graham Henry and Wayne Smith that maybe the speed and technical nature of the game today is making it too difficult for one man to control and that teams are suffering as a consequence.
Suffering is a consequence of the state of victimhood.
Suffering is a consequence of our belief, mostly subconscious, that we deserve pain.
Violence, including terrorism and other manifestations of "irrational behavior," are increasing globally and millions, if not billions, of people are suffering as a consequence.
