A morality of intentions also fails to help us get better. If all that matters are our intentions, we don’t have much of a reason to make ourselves better at doing good. A morality of results is difficult precisely because it requires us to mold ourselves into wiser, tougher, more capable people who do good in a difficult world.
On one hand a horribly simplistic notion of “intentionality” where it exists in a singular pre-behavioral space, rather than an ongoing judgment intimately connected within behavior. With this in mind it’s easy to see how then the simplistic notion of “action morality” is promoted, as if action divorced from intention is one possible and two, what any of us would want. If intention is meaningless and disconnected from morality then individual conscience is dead.
