A version of this tends to happen with rather unintelligent or incompent people placed in positions of power over other people, who can unintentionally harm people without having any intention to harm them.
Probably the best example here is the Great Chinese Famine, and the Holodomor to a lesser extent. One of the major problems was that the leadership had set severely unrealistic goals because they didn’t know enough and combined with incompetence, caused catastrophes on the scale of millions to tens of millions of lives.
A version of this tends to happen with rather unintelligent or incompent people placed in positions of power over other people, who can unintentionally harm people without having any intention to harm them.
Probably the best example here is the Great Chinese Famine, and the Holodomor to a lesser extent. One of the major problems was that the leadership had set severely unrealistic goals because they didn’t know enough and combined with incompetence, caused catastrophes on the scale of millions to tens of millions of lives.