I don’t know[1] how much the (most likely true) assumption that most people think they’re doing good actually buys us. People can have/develop very different conceptions of what Good is and what the instrumental strategies are that reliably get to the Good, sometimes so much that all hope of intelligibility is lost, especially when the person has twisted their environment, but also their own mind, into such a shape that questioning the load-bearing assumptions of what Good is and how to determine a Good strategy ~always fall flat.
Big thanks for the clarification.
I don’t know[1] how much the (most likely true) assumption that most people think they’re doing good actually buys us. People can have/develop very different conceptions of what Good is and what the instrumental strategies are that reliably get to the Good, sometimes so much that all hope of intelligibility is lost, especially when the person has twisted their environment, but also their own mind, into such a shape that questioning the load-bearing assumptions of what Good is and how to determine a Good strategy ~always fall flat.
When I say I don’t know, I mean that I don’t know, rather than that I very strongly doubt it.