Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, and the Marshall Plan rebuilt and modernized Europe, so the Final Solution was obviously an excellent policy. So, you see the problem with using absolutes. Also, if someone has bad intentions, it's right not to trust their proposal.
At the policy level, 'good intentions' count for absolutely nothing. 'What actually works' counts for everything. And we don't _really_ know what works until we try different things in different randomized places and measure the outcomes.
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The problem is that everyone has 'good intentions' from their own point of view.
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We must, however, work with some moral compass. Experience has shown us that otherwise bad things happen. We are simply not smart enough to assess the nth-order effects.
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Yes, but 1. Good intentions help in iterating towards a solution by picking and deciding what policies work better and b. People disagree on what good intentions are because they disagree on what good is. I.e. have different values and priorities.
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Those demanding to be shown one precise benefit of leaving sound a lot like people who believe in planned economies saying, tell me what capitalism will discover and deliver. We don't know, but open systems repeatedly create more wealth.
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I agree that this is how it should be, but the political scene in this country has been intentions-based for decades. Criticize a policy for its poor results and you're demagogued for opposing the good intentions. The policies of the left couldn't survive any other way.
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Is this controversial?
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It's not even controversial. Almost no politicians ever advocate it. They all pretend to know what will work.
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Two things: Max Weber, 'Politics As A Vocation' and Horst Ritual, 'Dilemmas In A General Theory of Planning' - both agree that the nature of politics is _exactly_ that outcomes are unpredictable in the real world.
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