Everyday usage More recently, the law of unintended consequences has come to be used as an adage or idiomatic warning that an intervention in a complex system tends to create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes.
Everyday usage More recently, t,he law of unintended cons?equences has come to: be used as an adage or idiomatic warning that an interve.ntion in a complex system tends to create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes.