Good Intentions

(chucklehead = an excellent insult!)

the answer is NO. one person's good intentions are another's anathema. example: jehovah's witnesses.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as they say. Most people who have "good intentions" and then act like jerkoffs don't really have good intentions anyhow, they have their own intentions.

Bah. It's better to have good intentions in life than mean intentions, that's what I say.

Not if your supposed good intentions result in the same thing as the bad intentions.

good intentions killed my mother's chickens - she wanted to wash them, so she put them in the toilet and pressed flush.

It's best to have anything than Cruel Intentions, what a load of shite.

seriously though this reminds me of Ned Flanders going mad in the Simpsons "Good intentions, you've got good intentions, don't blame anyone for screwing up cos they've got goooooood intentions".

If you fuck up you fuck up, the net result is the same. If someone admitted to doing the thing on purpose, or to be intending to do whatever the error was on purpose in the first place I wouldnt be as irritated as someone saying they had good intentions.

Christ I confuse myself sometimes.

Lingering ex-roommate had vaguely good intentions, I suppose. Alas, his lack of motivation leapt on those good intentions, killed them, and ripped the flesh from their bones.

Okay so I'll never hope anything good cos it'll always be a fuck up, good intentions = always dud, right, okay.

I should point out the first line of my posting was referring to the film.

The rest is fair game.

no Sarah! don't be despondent! good intentions are fine as long as they don't result in chuckle-headedness!

Acting like a complete fucking idiot and just failing at what you try to do are two entirely, entirely different things.

We need to make a distinction here.

If someone fucks up friendship wise, and screws you over or whatever, they inevitably will try and use anything as an excuse, good intentions, bad star alignment, whatever the fuck they can think of. This infuriates me alot and I meant earlier that I'd rather someone just admit to being capable of being a bit of an arse than feeding me lame shit excuses about why they did whatever it is they did.

If it's something that someone tried hard to do, and couldnt possibly have done because of circumstances beyond their control, then ok, they had good intentions, i wont blame them.

But generally if someone fucks up, the very nature of fucking up is that they could have done the thing better. I'm not saying I'm really harsh and unforgiving or anything, I just would rather a friend to apologise for something in an unqualified way. I try to treat people accordingly.

I think messing things up and then claiming your intentions were good as an excuse is dud. Having good intentions, messing up and putting your hand up and saying 'sorry I messed up there, didn't I?" is totally acceptable. Of course, it's intially possibel to have good intentions and for things to turn out fine.

Therefore...

Good Intentions if Proactive = Classic
Good Intentions if Reactive = Dud