The fool thinks that only the goodness of his intentions should be counted, and not the wisdom of what he has done. He will not be held to account for the latter, and if you bring it up, you are the monster.
He thinks he already won the moral victory by wanting to do what he thought was good in the first place. He’s incapable (at present) of reasoning that he is as much responsible for the outcome of his actions as he is for the intention of them. Don’t expect him to be any more rational in this than are the Appalachian snake handlers in what they do. He is blinded to it, and capable only of seeing the one thing: that he intended good.
He will be offended—outraged, even—when you bring up anything else. And he will cheat fact, logic, and sourcing in an attempt to deny you the right to discuss the whole of the matter. That’s what fools do. He will think his case deserves to be heard, and that if only everyone could hear it, he would be vindicated in the eyes of all those who are reasonable.
He has no idea what it is to run the gauntlet, to have one’s ideas put to the test of fact, logic, and sourcing. Since he has not tested his own ideas—but merely assumed them just and fair and reasonable since they emanated (if they did) from his own mind—he will be flummoxed when he cannot prevail with them in the public forum. He will conclude that he has been wronged, and that the people did not listen to him—not because his case is unworthy, but because they are unworthy.
And on his way out, he will tell himself whatever it takes to satisfy him that he need look no further into the wisdom of his ways. This kind of thinking is what got him into the mess, and it’s what delivers him away from the forum, still a fool.
He leaves a mess in his wake.
This is what fools do.
Pretty much by definition, they do not learn.
