I think the sutta is truthful. It does not matter which intentions one has, the view behind it determines the results, not the intentions.
If you want to help animals or people good intentions alone will not necassary lead to good results. One must also have knowledge. Good intention alone can create more suffering and even death of the animals or people which you are trying to help.
Relying on ones good intentions, thinking: ‘ach, i am doing good, because i have such good intentions, and i am safe because i have good intentions’, while not really concerned with results and with acquiring right view, i think that is a kind of akusala, immoral.
I belief, anyone who is really concerned with doing good, will inevitably question, ‘but really what is doing good’? What do i have to do to do good?
Doing good is not the same as ‘acting with good intentions’. Good or bad, it is inevitable related to view. That view determines the result, that’s what the sutta says.