Intentionality is irrelevant to the constraining force of past decisions.

Evidence

But if the salient feature of entrenchment is control of the future by the past, it is not obvious why the purposes or motivations of political decision makers should matter at all. From the perspective of the present, the constraints imposed by past decisions will be the same regardless of whether they were intended or entirely inadvertent. — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 491

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bears on the reader’s purpose: whether rationalizing ideology must be intentionally embedded to be sticky, or whether unintentional lock-in suffices. — connects to: Persuasion by past reasoning is not the same as obeying precedent. — Frederick Schauer, Thinking Like a Lawyer, 66; Good intentions do not guarantee good philosophical outcomes; Rational choice theory treats sunk costs as irrelevant to future decisions — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence: Opening…, 61 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Rational choice theory treats sunk costs as irrelevant to future decisions #expands (0.85) — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 61
• Decisions against one’s will arise from situational confluence, not rational deliberation #complicates (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 489
• Persuasion by past reasoning is not the same as obeying precedent. #corroborates (0.78) — Frederick Schauer, Thinking Like a Lawyer, 66
• Intentionality means the mind’s constant aboutness, not deliberate purpose #qualifies (0.76) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 152
• Choice of action should hinge on what will actually happen, not ideal possibilities #qualifies (0.75) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1018
• The rationality of suicide is irrelevant to welfare critiques #exemplifies (0.74) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1600
• Opinion arguments rationalize decisions rather than explain how they are reached. #complicates (0.73) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 408
• Good intentions do not guarantee good philosophical outcomes #corroborates (0.72)