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Explain your opinion on the following please...?
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
7 Answers
- MaryBethLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
We must stop thinking...and just DO!!(good acts,that is.)
Source(s): A new pal tought me this. - 1 decade ago
I think it means that despite the best intentions sometimes, things still go awry.
The best example I can think of is this: when a grub is trying to break out of its cocoon and turn into a dragonfly, the process looks very difficult and painful. The natural tendency for some people might be to give the grub a hand and physically break it out of the cocoon, it seems like the right thing to do to ease the poor grubs's misery.
However if the grub doesn't stress and exert itself it will not completely form and its body can't harden. So while you think you're doing the grub a favour by breaking it out of it's cocoon, you're actually dooming it because it can't form into a real dragonfly.
So even though the original deed was well intentioned, the grub will die.
Just because your actions were well intentioned doesn't guarantee a satisfactory result. Sometimes a series of completely misguided good intentions will lead to disaster if left to the incompetent or thoughtless.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Good intentions will not get you to Heaven. Good works will not get you to Heaven. Now, instead of being told something without effort, go and research what will instead of trying to find out th easy way why good intentions pave the way to hell. The answer is really simple though, you'll be suprised!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Although we may have good intentions its not necessarily the right thing to do. everyone who supports the war in Iraq., for example. They may think its a good idea to kill people for oil, but its not.
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- 1 decade ago
I think it means that a lot of people intend to the right thing, but are too meek, lazy or afraid to actually DO it.
- nursesr4evrLv 71 decade ago
You can't tell people how to live even if your idea is a better way to do things, because you take away their decision making capacity.
- 1 decade ago
It means that people try to convince themselves that their bad deeds are good when they indeed know they are not.
Guess they must be pretty bad deeds in this case.