"I, for one, did not think"
Mr Baker should have stopped right there, because that says it all; he and the other 87 didn't think.
"I, for one, did not think through all of the unintended consequences, nor did I believe almost a year later it would be dissected in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the subject of such acrimony," says Lee Baker, another associate professor of cultural of anthropology and chair of the Arts and Sciences Council."
There are two kinds of thinkers in the world. Linear thinkers and spherical thinkers. Linear thinkers don't think of the unintended consequences.