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

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Results first. Actions second. Intent third.

    You can say your intent is anything and I’ve got no way of verifying this.

    You can take good actions that make the situation worse. If noone warned you about the consequences I guess I can’t blame you.

    If the result is a net positive I won’t complain too much. Even if you said you’d solve global warming by making fun of orphans and somehow made that work I’d quietly grumble about there must have been a better way but be happy that I don’t have to deal with it.