The Road to Hell

   Questions of morality are riddled with holes and conundrums, and that is partly why philosophy is so engaging. Good people sometimes do terrible things and bad people sometimes do great things. Your favorite movie probably has one or both of those happening at least once. Sometimes good things are done for bad reasons and vice versa, which raises the question: Can actions themselves be inherently wrong? I do not believe so. In my opinion, intent is all that matters. If you mean to do good, you are morally doing good.
    When it comes to the law, writing, or trying to do something nice by mowing the lawn before your parents got home and accidentally putting gasoline in the oil hole instead of the gas hole, we are often reminded that intent does not matter. In moral issues, it is the opposite; intent is all that matters.
It is because of this that it is hard to say that there are definitive good and bad actions. If someone does something that they wholeheartedly believe to be morally correct, how can be said that they are morally at fault? They can, of course, be faulted in other ways (legally, for instance) and it does not necessarily excuse the action itself, but the person cannot be morally blamed.
      For example, if you took a person who had been born and raised in a society where ownership did not exist and everything belonged to everyone, and moved them to our modern society, they would probably at some point accidentally steal something, not knowing any better. This person would have done something that is generally considered morally wrong, but I do not believe that the person is a bad person because of it or that they should be thought of as such.