The Theory of Planned Behaviour posits that individual behavior is driven by behavioral intentions where behavioural intentions are a function of an individual's attitude toward the behaviour, the subjective norms surrounding the performance of the behavior, and the individual's perception of the ease with which the behavior can be performed (behavioral control).
Preferences as strict partial orders have an intuitive semantics; they may be subjective from daily life experiences, driven by personal intentions, or due to technical constraints.
The collective drift towards more regulation in the western liberal democratic model is driven by good intentions and by a mad dream of perfect fairness in which individual discretion and individual responsibility are intrinsically subversive.
This year, Cory Gardner, a Republican congressman and a Senate candidate from Colorado, renounced, under pressure, a personhood amendment that he had supported, calling it "a bad idea driven by good intentions".
By 9-month old infants can infer the goals (Woodward, 1998) and interpret actions of other agents as driven by rational intentions (Gergely et al., Cognition, 1995), and at 14 month of age children can recognize that someone is trying to obtain an out-of-reach object, pushing the object toward them (Warneken & Tomasello, Infancy, 2007).
I'd say that whatever actions we've prioritized in our society, whether that's getting wealthy, being beautiful, having status or being successful are fundamentally driven by good intentions.
Denver Post, March 21: "This was a bad idea driven by good intentions," he told The Denver Post.
"This was a bad idea driven by good intentions," he told the paper.
Too often programming is driven by good intentions that are not backed by solid evidence.
In metabolomics, data analysis and mining can be driven by various intentions and will strive for DD with different purposes.
