Given that we know that even the very stupid fool, the well meaning ignorant, we

Given that we know that even the very stupid fool, the well meaning ignorant, well intentioned educated, the messianic, sociopathic, and psychopathic, do not always know that they are in fact doing ill, or even if doing evil, then how do any of us know we are good or evil?

In my mind I try to do good. But how do we know?

According to Montaigne, we never know we have lived a good life until the moment we die – since we can reverse it with a single action. Worse, he argues that we are most often criticized for the unintended consequences of our moral ambitions, but rarely for those evils we intend. Worse yet, the greater ambition you attempt the more spectacular can be the failure. (The Nazis, Napoleon and the Bolsheviks the most obvious examples.)

I take bigger risks. most of them work. some of them don’t.

How does one know?

We cannot trust the opinions of others. We cannot trust our own opinions. How do we know?