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RE: Are 'Good' Intentions Good Enough? The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
Great article! Really enjoyed it. It's true when people say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. There's a book on this topic called ordinary men which talks about how normal police officers in Germany during the nazi era went from being normal cops to committing some of the most horrific atrocities ever known to man. The cops had the best of intentions and in fact the nicer, and higher in consciousness they were, the more likely they were to submit to authority and do as they were told.
Yeah its sad how "well intentioned" people get into something and then they keep going the same path and do bad things, making their intentions worthless when they choose to do wrongs. If people are really of the more important kind of higher consciousness, they would not accept to be under that authority and obey its commands. Thanks for the feedback.
My pleasure, sorry meant conscientiousness, which is how hard working and orderly one tends to be, but also correlates with submitting to authoring and conforming. And also that book talks about how if you were in their shoes and lived their lives, you would do exactly what they did. Thanks again for sharing
I disagree. Not everyone did.
Some did leave, but others felt bad about leaving their fellow soldiers to do the "dirty work", so they decided to stay, and that aspect of human nature is directly correlated with conscientiousness.