This hits me as one of his best columns. Difficult judgment to make, I know. Thank God for Mark's work.
It's difficult to discriminate among relative expressions of genius. What Mark does so well here is trash bogus intentions for their lack of results. You would have liked to have saved that small child from the fire - but somebody else was willing to go in and you stopped him. Your merit should be zero or negative and that is what Mark is telling me.