This is a pretty moot point - judges do go by license intent rather than literal license text whenever possible but putting abstract statements in licenses without severability clauses is a great way to make those licenses unenforceable. A license that includes the statement "This may not be used to further the end of mankind in any way" for instance - is completely null and void, the intent is clear but the set of actions that can be argued to fit that are... everything.
Also, that original intent can be lost to time (in three hundred years a judge might rule that they can't properly evaluated what we today consider good and evil since this was before we acknowledged residents of Alpha Centauri as intelligent beings and thus our moral code is incomprehensible) and in that case judges will take a literal reading of the text which can lead to issues like ambiguous comma styling[1].
