Psychologically, we have a tendency to consider all our own intentions as justified. We even feel frustrated if we can not satisfy them.
But intention can arise from murky waters, as well as from the purest of dreams.
Our intentions can be spontaneous or the result of an analysis.
Many of our spontaneous intentions are negative, like revenge. They might be simple and basic, as sexual attraction. Often they are rooted in our social situation and always they are based on our experiences and our knowledge.
We human beings are not inherently good or bad, but we can be both. It is a question of intention.
Historically we have lived in a situation of natural conflict. Resources were limited, nations were limited, but fear was not limited.
Now this is changing, and we can change from having intentions founded in lack and conflict, to intentions founded on the will to will well for all.
Even in country in open conflict as Afghanistan we see the awareness of building a society on trust and cooperation rather than split and weapons.Normally bad intentions lead to anti social actions, which are punished by the state at a later time. This is not the optimal way to act.
Better is to look closer to the difference between good and bad intentions. The tolerance against bad intentions is much bigger than the tolerance against bad clothes. The archetypical American gangster has impeccable clothes and hair cut, a perfectly clean luxury car but the worst of intentions.If we analyse intention we find that no fine clothes can make up for bad intentions.
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