If they knew that was the final consequence they would start to squirm.
In democratic capitalism we turn attention from "the moral intentions of individuals and toward the final social consequences of their actions."
And then of course one has to reflect on the final consequences of this cautionary tale.
The denial of access to the courts was a final malign consequence of the English system.
The final consequence of the war was the worst - total war created the total state.
The final possible negative consequence is the possibility that women will be placed with an abusive or exploitative husband.
When we're not feeling postapocalyptic, we hover, paralyzed by choice and what can seem a lack of final consequences.
- I've been thinking over it ever since, and that ha, ha's the final consequence.
We are under the terrible compulsion to follow our thought down to its final consequence and to act in accordance to it.
We were held for madmen because we followed every thought down to its final consequence and acted accordingly.