RE: Good intentions -- how much do they mean to you?
September 22, 2016 at 5:15 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2016 at 5:17 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(September 21, 2016 at 11:10 pm)Esquilax Wrote: I think it's worth noting that people don't really have bad intentions, in a moral sense. Nobody thinks of themselves as the villain in their own actions, we always have justifications for what we do that are internally consistent to us, even if they aren't factually or logically accurate. So it's more a matter of selfish intentions and unselfish ones, rather than good and bad.
That's strange because I see it the other way:
(September 15, 2016 at 7:25 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: IMO getting pleasure from successfully helping others with their consent is certainly a better intention than getting pleasure from harming others -- regardless of ultimate selfishness.
Simply put: Helpful intentions are good intentions; malicious intentions are bad intentions. I think the whole selfish/selfless thing confuses the issue.
That's my take on it anyway.
... although, Esq, our disagreement could be semantic. What do you think?
