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pave the road to hell

To lead to a disaster by acting with good intentions.

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  • From the proverb the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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In the other direction, treatments that were decried in their time as paving the road to hell, including vaccination, transfusions, anesthesia, artificial insemination, organ transplants, and in-vitro fertilization, have become unexceptional boons to human well-being.

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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