This goes for so many related things in general too. "Ends justify the means" is almost always about justifying awful means than noble ends. "My intentions are noble which makes my awful actions pure and good, unlike the sin-eater to who I rally frothing mobs so as to purge them from daily life"
Ned ResnikoffOne thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.