Your intentions are good. Someone has no means of feeding himself, and you give him a means. Not educating yourself in a dozen fields of study before teaching him how to fish does not change your intentions from good to bad. Just as your intentions are not bad when you help an old lady cross the street because you don't know why she's on the curb. What if she's trying to commit suicide, and you've just taken self-determination away from her? What if she just lifted some guy's wallet, and she's trying to get as far from him as she can before he notices? All nonsense. You're trying to help someone. That's your intent. People help each other all the time. If nobody helped anybody without first asking a dozen people for their opinions, hoping other points of view will reveal all possible areas of possible danger, then consulting experts in whatever fields were considered likely to be impacted, nobody would do anything for anyone. That would be bad.Vraith wrote:Like the old "give fish/teach fishing." Really, wise-man? There are half a dozen unknowns and falsehoods in your "wisdom." Your intentions are BAD because you don't know SHiT about hunger, education, rivers, fish, economics, power, poverty, etc.
As far as the fish goes, I'll teach him how to fish even if I DO know all the things you think should be known before taking that kind of action, and even if I know it WILL be a problem. Because letting him starve is an immediate bad. The negative consequences that come from teaching him how to fish (depletion of the fish population?) are not immediate, and can be addressed before things go belly up (<- fish joke).
And if the way I try to help someone feed himself is by teaching him how to fish, it's likely I do know a bit about the impact of fishing. I'm probably a fisherman. Not like I work at a grocery story, and figure the way to help him is to teach him to fish. I'd be helping him try to get a job at a grocery store.
If I tried to help him by showing him how to break into someone's house and steal their money and food, my intentions would be bad.