The Evil of Intention

Understanding how appealing to intention can be used to manipulate you is one of the core components to understanding intellectual self-defense. People try to wave off their responsibility all the time simply by saying "I didn't mean it". However, there is a deeper question here: why is this manipulative technique SO EFFECTIVE, especially at the societal scale?

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