Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? To prohibit what they think pernicious is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction. If we were never to act on our opinions, because those opinions ‘lay be wrong, we should leave all our interests uncared for, and all our duties unperformed. An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular. .John Stuart Mill
About This Quote
If what we do is wrong, it doesn't matter what we think of it. It's really the only way to work. We all have this limitation. If you don't think your actions are bad, then there is no need to refrain from doing them.
The real question is if they are good or bad. If they are bad, then it doesn't matter what you think of them. I am not suggesting that we should always do the things we think are good.
That wouldn't work; only that we should do the things that we think are good.
Source: On Liberty
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