BITS Pilani: The right intention can have no bad results

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner (Q): When we do a root cause analysis of mistakes, we find two major components, intent and action, and they seem to be in constant conflict with each other. For example, Robert Oppenheimer was one of the leading members of the founding team of nuclear bombs. His intent…