Asking here because I don’t think this has a concrete answer… (or maybe it does? Please let me know if there is one!)

So a lot of times good people do good things and bad people do bad things… but what if someone with malicious intent unintentially improved the world? Or vice versa, someone with all the right intentions but made things worse for everyone

I guess this can be applied to a lot of politicians, but the question isn’t based on any real-life events

  • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Intentions, of course, since they indicate how someone is likely to behave in the future. Even if you end up causing harm while intending to do good, that doesn’t lead me to expect you’ll continue causing harm. But the opposite is true if your intention was to cause harm. This holds true even if no actual harm was done - the fact that someone intended harm says a lot about them.