THE LAW OF CONSEQUENTIAL RECIPROCITY

The long-established Law of Unintended Consequences states that human actions always have unanticipated effects, and that these are almost invariably negative. As a subset of the law proper, I hereby propose the Law of Consequential Reciprocity, or Boomerang Law, according to which "the greater and more sweeping the benefits of any new development are claimed to be, the greater and more pernicious will be its unintended consequences". As an example, I give you Twitter.