Not A Poll: Does Motivation Affect Morality?

[Edwardo Piet]

I didn't either. I didn't make any claims at all.

-Hammy

1) and 2) are statistical claims.

1)who has the best intentions is a better person and is almost certainly more likely to actually be the person who does the most moral good through moral acts in the long run --2) most of the time good people do good things and bad people do bad things, not always but intentions matter.

^ reference numbers mine.

They're not claims, just opinions.

And this is a contradiction:

Who produces the best long term consequences has done the most moral good through moral acts, but who has the best intentions is a better person

I'm defining a "good person" as someone with good intentions whereas doing moral good through moral acts is what the morally good thing to do is.

-Hammy