> Across social, policy and organizational issues in the world, activists routinely assume a vague sense of what is "good" and then champion it, without actually looking into why something is good or what the word means in that context to begin with.

Now imagine what happens if you give those well-intentioned but under-informed activists real power. One saw a lot of problems like that in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: folks who (mostly) genuinely wanted to do good, or at least (generally) didn't wish to do harm, but who instead wrought a great deal of economic (and more) harm to their countrymen.

One sees the same phenomenon in large companies, most of whose executives really do want to do good or at least don't actively wish to hurt anyone, but whose decisions often result in unintended ill consequences both to themselves and others.