What are the good intentions behind female genital mutilation, genocide and child pornography?
Anyone who does anything has to be listened to and questioned in a focused manner to discover what the underlying intention might be.
I can, however, guess about these horrible acts:
1. Female genital mutilation: an attempt to provide a ritual to bring a person into the membership of the tribe. Young males are also often genital-mutilated by the tribal elders during a "graduation to adulthood" ceremony.
2.Genocide can be seen in the Bible as the way to separate and destroy the evil unbelievers from the pure Christians. It is a handy way to deal with our own suffering by acting it out on other people.
3.Child Pornography is simply material to feed the horrific sexual desires and acts of people who were sexually abused or sexually confused in their own past. They are simply immature monsters who are compelled to "return to the scene of the (original) crime" again and again. By their unspeakable acts, they may be trying to find the underlying reasons behind their adult behavior.
I for one always pay close attention to my own good intentions, but I never acknowledge the bad EFFECTS of those "good" intentions.
Too often we use dysfunctional and immature ways to express our intentions.
Do you?