Who's with me on intent?

Okay so we've all had to explain to at least 1 guy who has no idea that "black magic" is not an accurate description, and also "white magic". I want to reiterate hat the terms everyone should use should be "misused magic" and "wisely used magic". This clears up the intent but not the word and gets the point across. Who's with me?

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I just say that we should avoid labeling intent, as it is very subjective. One person's idea of wisely used could very well be another's definition of misused, if you know what I mean.

When I mean wisely mean morally right from the common stature and this is only if you HAVE to call it a "type".

Morals are constructs of society and often vary from person to person. You could have different morals from me, thus it makes trying to label things based off "morals" really subjective and individualized- as was mentioned above. Labeling, in general, can be hard to do simply because we all vary so much on this sort of thing. If I was to practice something which you viewed as morally wrong, but I viewed as morally right, who would be correct in where it stands?

Although I like that you've decided to use a phrase rather than color, I'm going to have to agree with the above.. Many things I do may be morally wrong to you, yet I see them as completely and morally correct. We live in a rather diverse world, if we all had the same moral foundation, your new terms would work great! But hey! I'm sure a lot of people will use it.. We just won't all mean the same thing.
Namaste :)

By morally right I mean like common ones as explaining what you mean is a bridge between morals in the first place, so at least a more accurate generalization is what I'm going for, like not trying to kill random people wih magic or healing the sick

Those examples aren't meant to be similar