Is there a name for this specific concept? Where somebody invents something (to do them good) but then that thing turns around and backfires on them?

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    6 months ago

    To be fair, he gave adequate warning to Icarus. The fault with the wax wings doesn’t lie in the inventor or invention, but pure simple user error not following the directions.