Good intentions -- how much do they mean to you?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Good intentions mean an awful awful lot. It's the difference between a good and bad person. People who do harm but mean well can improve and are less likely to do harm on average even when they don't improve themselves. Deliberately malicious people are just assholes at best.

Fair point, but it prompts the question, how long is the rope you give them? Sooner or later, they have to learn from their missteps.

Good intentions are great, but the capability to follow them through matters at least as much, lest you run afoul of unintended consequences.

tl/dr: talk is cheap.