I need some help understanding the English expression "for one's own good". I have found on the web various contexts in which it is used and it seems to me, that the meaning changes quite a lot depending on the adjective used in each case.

For Your Own Good - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics For Your Own Good - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

I decided not to litigate. My family said it would just drag this horrible experience out for far too long, and THAT would not be “good” for my mental health or healing. As much as I want people to pay for doing this to me, I just want to have peace. Whereas the French really see the whole thing as no big deal. This Charles Melman sees what is being called autism is simply the result of a non-accepting early childhood. And of course the American Autism proponents are infuriated because in France they don’t seem to see autism as being real, seeing it more as an induced state.Dumbledore also points out a couple times that it was rather useful in stopping Harry from becoming full of himself due to being exposed to his ridiculous level of fame at a too-early age. Of course instead of an inflated ego he got outright abuse, so this feels more like a minor positive than an actual reasonable justification.

For Your Own Good Quotes by Alice Miller - Goodreads For Your Own Good Quotes by Alice Miller - Goodreads

Loved speaking with @ danspapers about the first panel I’ll be moderating at @ HamptonsWhodun this year, featuring… https://t.co/hwrdV45fSz Apr 4, 2023, 11:48 AM Activism is hard to do when you’re housebound from iatrogenic damage, ostracized thanks to your “diagnosis” or on the verge of homelessness. Invoked by Venir in Evon, as he plannned to betray Evon and Hero to The Cabal, thinking Evon had some sort of mystical hold on Hero. Once Evon was gone, Hero would return to his senses. The massive reward The Cabal offered for Evon's capture had nothing to do with it.This Alex Plank and the guy behind him John Elder Robison, are really creepy. It is entirely a political position, people who need the Autism-Asperger’s label to exonerate perpetrators and to sustain the self-reliance ethic.