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This seems to be overloading the term "side effects". The functional programming concept of side effects (which it says its functions shouldn't have) is changing the global state of the program that invokes them other than by returning the value. It makes no claims of these other concepts of a program being affected by analyzing the source code of the function independent of invoking it or of the the function running on morally relevant causal structure.
Yes, perhaps I should not have called it that, but the two concepts seem very similar to me. While the things I talk about do not fit in the definition of side effect from functional languages, I think that it is similar enough that the analogy should be made. Perhaps I should have made the analogy, but used a different term.