Accidental Harm
2018
2018
https://80000hours.org/articles/accidental-harm/
A good topic and a blindspot for me. Attachment to a goal which reinforces an identity…
I saw this article and immediately thought of the inverse. Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust identifies himself as:
“Part of that Power, not understood, Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.”
Good or bad intentions don’t necessarily correspond to the actual result.
“Willing” and “working” are not the same. The first is ego the second is a basic human activity. Work without ego and in the name of something greater, thus giving up any attachment to the result.