Does Intention Affect the Goodness or Evilness of our Actions?

The desire to do good can affect the goodness or evilness of our actions, especially if there are opposing groups who have a different view than ours. Hitler, for example, was a hero to the people in Germany and he was doing good, and people everywhere else in the world saw Hitler as an evil dictator who killed millions of people unnecessarily. So, Hitler had the desire to do good, but he was doing evil. In “Why can’t we all just get along”, and “The Moral Instinct”, a project is mentioned where Joshua Greene, a psychology professor, gives a scenario in which a trolley is heading towards five people, and you have the choice to divert the train and save their lives, but in exchange lose another man’s life. Most people would divert the train and kill that one person, knowing that they would save the lives of five people and they would be heroes for doing so, but not everyone would think of them as a hero who did good. The family, for example, might think of them as an evil person who killed their son, and that they should’ve just let destiny happen. For this reason, the desire to do good doesn’t always end up in complete goodness or evilness.