There is no more mischievous absurdity than this judging of actions from the OUTSIDE as they look to us, instead of from the INSIDE as they look to the actors; nothing more irrational than to criticize deeds as though the doers of them had the same desires, hopes, fears, and restraints as ourselves.

Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, naturalist

Social Statics, 3.20.6 (1851)