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== Real Life ==
* Apparently this occurs in Real Life in not necessarily evil endeavours. There is even a rule called the [
** One notable situation is any sort of technical profession such as software engineering and other types of system design. It can be amazingly easy to over-optimize or overly-design complex systems when the end user/end result would never be able to tell the difference (and there is no difference internally other than personal satisfaction).
* A common failure of military planning throughout history. If you have the option to use a sledgehammer and win, or to construct elaborate plans that will achieve the same results, you should use the sledgehammer. It's safer.
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