[WikiEN-l] Re: Wikipedia and autism

Thu Oct 13 07:24:44 UTC 2005

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

>Tony replied: 
>  
>
>>Why does it happen?  What unacknowledged bit of 
>>vindictiveness existing in the human spirit enabled this to 
>>be done by people who told themselves that they were doing so 
>>for the best of motives?
>>    
>>
>In my religion, doing a bad thing with a "good motive" still counts as a
>sin. Results count. 
>
Bad deeds for good motives may be the result of mistakes.  They should 
always be pardonable.  There can be many ways that something can go wrong.

Good deeds for bad motives are far worse despite the appearance to 
observers.

Ec