"Good intentions are not enough. And vengeance doesn't make you look any more serious. I really,..."

"Good intentions are not enough. And vengeance doesn't make you look any more serious. I really, really wish Ashton Kutcher had come out and directly admitted that the numbers he offered for child prostitution were bad. The fact of the thing is that Kutcher wasn't attacking the Voice for their involvement in trafficking, until the Voice attacked him. Kutcher claims, via tweet, to only have played "stupid on TV." I guess. From the vantage point of a battle rapper, I get the point. Kutcher has successfully carved into his adversaries revenue, and pointed out their own credibility issue. But from the vantage point of one seriously engaged in a long war with a persistent and oft-underestimated foe, I do not. I am deeply suspicious of the efficacy of spectacle, of giving Ashton Kutcher's dust-up with a newspaper higher billing than the victims he is warring on behalf. Thus, for me, the critical question for me is this: How does standing on bad facts help end child prostitution?"

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Kutcher vs. the Village Voice, Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic)

This should be the do-gooders mantra (but won't ever be because its too hard): Good intentions are not enough.