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by shasta 3726 days ago
From what I just read, it doesn't even sound that deep. If you ask me whether a good act was "intentional", I'd assume you mean whether the good effect was the purpose of the act. But if you ask whether a bad act was "intentional", I'd assume you wanted to know whether the bad effect was known in advance. That is, there seems to be different connotations for "intention" in relation to good and bad intents.