Editing Unintended consequences (section)

===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.<ref name="Norton ">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Norton |first=Rob |editor=David R. Henderson |editor-link=David R. Henderson |encyclopedia=[[Concise Encyclopedia of Economics]] |title=Unintended Consequences |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/UnintendedConsequences.html  |year=2008 |edition= 2nd |publisher=[[Library of Economics and Liberty]] |location=Indianapolis |isbn=978-0-86597-665-8 |oclc=237794267}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/mislj71&div=24&id=&page= |title= The Law of Unintended Consequences in Asbestos Litigation: How Efforts to Streamline the Litigation Have Fueled More Claims|journal=Mississippi Law Journal |volume=71 |page=531 |publisher=HeinOnline |access-date=2010-05-07|last1=Schwartz |first1=Victor E. |last2=Tedesco |first2=Rochelle M. }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/flsulr28&div=36&id=&page= |title=28 Florida State University Law Review 2000–2001 Mandatory Minimum Sentences: Exemplifying the Law of Unintended Consequences Comment |journal=Florida State University Law Review |volume=28 |page=935 |publisher=Heinonline.org |date=1993-06-18 |access-date=2012-11-21|last1=Mascharka |first1=Christopher }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/antil65&div=47&id=&page= |title= The Effect of Twenty Years of Hart-Scott-Rodino on Merger Practice: A Case Study in the Law of Unintended Consequences Applied to Antitrust Legislation|journal=Antitrust Law Journal |volume=65 |page=865 |publisher=HeinOnline |access-date=2010-05-07|last1=Sims |first1=Joe |last2=Herman |first2=Deborah P. }}</ref>

Akin to [[Murphy's law]], it is commonly used as a wry or humorous warning against the [[hubris]]tic belief that humans can fully control the world around them, not to presuppose a belief in predestination or a lack or a disbelief in that of free will.