What does "The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions" mean?

[EvolvingPhoenix]

Jesus Christ. A whole deep diving thread on karma and metaphysics is not needed to explain this saying.

Just say it's a saying used to hold people with supposedly good intentions accountable for bad decisions that harm the world around them, despite their supposed intentions. Then point out that Gem is taking this too literally. Hell, I'm autistic and even I didn't take that quote at face value.

Hell is subjective Gem. Most people who go to "hell" after they die do so because there is nothing left once they die but the dreaming awareness. That dreaming awareness, no longer held back by the laws of physics, dreams up whatever it wants, which could be heaven or hell. Most peoples' dreaming awareness is atrophied from lack of use, so in order to understand the dream, it must be strengthened which could take a bit, as they get acclimated to the dream they are dreaming. No matter how "eternal" the place seems however, I assure you they do not stay there forever. Just until they understand the meaning of the dream.

Maybe that's exactly what was needed. How can we know what is needed until it comes out?

If a "bad" person like Hitler thinks they are doing good and are really doing bad, how can a "good" person know they are really doing good?

That is not what you asked when you started this thread.

You asked a simple question with a simple answer.

This is a related, yet separate one from what you asked.