Good-intentioned people routinely make life hell for themselves and others
Evidence
A similar concern can be found in the classic studies of the discipline. For instance, Myrdal has expressed it aptly too: ‘why all … potentially and intentionally good people so often make life a hell for themselves and each other when they live together, whether in a family, a community, a nation or a world’ (Myrdal, 1996 [ 1944 ], p. 1023). — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 714
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Indiscriminate kindness and liberality become affirmation of everything bad that exists — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 87