I stopped here: > It’s often easier to identify when people didn’t adequately consider the second and subsequent order impacts. For example, consider a country

I stopped here: > It’s often easier to identify when people didn’t adequately consider the second and subsequent order impacts. For example, consider a country that, wanting to inspire regime change in another country, funds and provides weapons to a group of “moderate rebels.” Only it turns out that those moderate rebels will become powerful and then go to war with the sponsoring country for decades. Whoops. The author is talking about thinking, and then uses a country to illustrate his point. But... countries don't think! People think (animals too, to varying extents, perhaps plants) but not countries! Countries are a human CONCEPT. Its more possible that a stone could think than a concept! This is -1 thinking in my book.