These are second-order effects of the Drunkboat effect.
Events in the rest of the Empire could be effectively modelled as second-order effects.
Real information on C41 had to be extracted from second-order effects.
The 'policing' of conflicts, however, is a second-order effect.
Free will is a second-order effect.
Even life is a second-order effect.
To be sure, there is nothing wrong with doing something that benefits all humanity, but that is, in a sense, a second-order effect.
There is an unsettling coldbloodedness in that "second-order effect," though it doesn't read as if Rice is trying to shock.
Helping humanity is suddenly a second-order effect.
This means neutrino-antineutrino oscillations are a second-order effect.