Buddhism - force for good, mental conditioning, or both?

[Seditious]

What is wrong with wanting to improve the world because it makes you feel happier? Seems like a fairly positive way to focus ones mind to me?

even Hitler wanted to improve the world, just a note to suggest how much such ideas need to be defined and qualified---improve what, for whom does it need improvement, and to what end.

 

[Blowtus]

fair point, should have specified the 'compassion' ideal as being fairly pertinent to that