yeah, i think that is an important point, goodness is not a machinery, or strategy, it is the action itself, and the spirit of the action, which of course can fail, but when judged according to what was knowable can be said to be the right decision for the actor in spite of the result

it is the most difficult thing of all, that ever present uncertainty that one is taking the right path, when information may be concealed from you in order to enable evil to prevail for a time