Many people like to think that their intentions matter. If you buy someone a gift that they might not end up liking, it's "the thought that counts."
How much do intentions really matter, though? Let's imagine a person named Mr. Bumbles. Mr. Bumbles is an extremely well-intentioned albeit ignorant person.
Mr. Bumbles loves wine, pork, and beef, and has three friends who are religiously observant, a Muslim, a Jew, and a Hindu. When he's invited to dinner at his friends' respective houses, he gives a bottle of wine to the Muslim, a package of pork rinds to the Jew, and a box of beef jerky to the Hindu.
Suffice it to say, these gifts are just a tad problematic. Is Mr. Bumbles acting amorally by giving these gifts even though his intentions were good?
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