Decisions have consequences. This shouldn’t be a three-word statement I should even have to make. Anywhere, ever, but especially as the lede to a story. If you choose not to do your homework, you get a zero. If you choose not to spend time with your child, you won’t bond with them and they’ll grow up to resent you. If you drink a fifth of Jack Daniels a day, you’ll probably have some liver ailment sometime down the road, not to mention loads of other consequences. I could continue ad nauseam, but I won’t. This is a law of social and biological nature so foundational that deviations from it are…