Fundamental question of life

I have been reading lot of books now. I keep observing things in life and note down them in a notebook. I also keep noting down in a notebook the a few of the principles of life that I intend to follow. But all comes down to a fundamental question in life. How do I know intention of other people before I respond to them? Since most of the time we interact with other people in life. It all comes down to this fundamental question. I have devised a few of the principles that I use for this fundamental question:
1) Small things done unconsciously are more important than large things done : If we want true feelings of people small things done unconsciously are much more important indicator than large things because
a. Small things can be observed easily
b. People are too conscious of getting caught in big things
2) People want to maximize, utility of life called happiness. And there is derivation of this simple rule. Since no want to believe himself to be evil there is always positive intention about their behavior.
But what I don’t understand intention of my own actions. Suppose that I helped someone. I wanted to help him not because I want to humiliate him but because I want to see him happy. Now that I am happy that because I helped me. But I also feel happy because I humiliated him. It seems to me that we are capable of holding 2 simultaneous thoughts or beliefs in our mind. We become good and evil not by our beliefs but by when our set of good beliefs dominate over good beliefs

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