when bad people do good things for the wrong reasons, how do you know who's good or bad, or what makes reasons right or wrong? is there consequentialist/deontological commentary on this?
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“If villains new how useful virtue was, they’d become virtuous out of villainy.” —Benjamin Franklin (I think)
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When we talk about a person being good/bad, this tends to be shorthand re. their intent, and assuming that intent is a meaningful predictor of outcome (competency of the person). That doesn’t preclude outcomes not alligned with intent occurring
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