It's hard to directly and concretely account for the indirect effects of actions.
But a good proxy: are you proud of the action you took?
In 10 years, if you showed it to an audience of people whose opinion you care about, would you be proud of it?
Merely not embarrassed?
Would you cringe?
We have an intuitive calibration of what has good indirect effects.
It just takes the time to take a step back and listen to it.