I know Montaigne said it first, but I have found it to be true: that others gene

I know Montaigne said it first, but I have found it to be true: that others generally think ill of us for things we did not do, did not intend, or had no incentives to do, or had completely different intentions and incentives. Yet those things we do that are intentionally unethical, immoral, and evil so much more frequently go unnoticed. People criticize what they see. They too often imagine ill behind what they see. Because they project upon others their own intuitions. All the while, blind to the incentives, and the consequences they don’t see.


Source date (UTC): 2017-07-27 10:40:00 UTC

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