It seems to me that the primary "issue" here is one that most people seem to miss. The issue is "MEANS and ENDS" It is impossible, while the Will remains committed to a selfish End or to promotion of self-interest or self-gratification, that it should use the Means to promote a benevolent/charitable End. The first thing to change is the End. Indeed, if the End is changed, the same acts which were wrong before will now become right. While the selfish End continued, whatever the Means, was totally selfish. Whether you ate, drank, labored, or spoke; whatever you did, was to promote some form of self-interest. The End being wrong, all that was done must have been wrong. But let that selfish End be changed. Let the benevolence take...

"He who serves God from love, devotes himself to His law and to the observance of His commandments, and walks in the path of wisdom, not because of any worldly advantage, nor to protect himself from evil, nor to inherit good thereafter. He does the right because it is right, though in the end the blessing will not fail him." Moses Maimonides, 1135-1204 David Grant

Thank you. I find it interesting that if you vote against someone because they are black, you are a racist. If you vote FOR them because they are black you are_____? If you vote against someone because of sex, you are are sexist. If you vote FOR someone because of their sex, you are ________? Our double-standards are incrediblek!

Many things in life can only be defined by "what is absent." Cold--absence of heat. Dark--absence of light (Don't curse the dark; light a candle." Fear--absence of love Death--absence of life EVIL-- ABSENCE OF GOOD/GOD Is there any One Substance than can make up for the absence of all ot these important elements? "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him IMMANUEL--which means, 'GOD WITH US." Isaiah 7:14/Matthew 1:23

It might be helpful and insightful if people understood that every "judgement" of intent is an autobiographical statement.
DG