Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Judging the Rightness and Wrongness of an Action
From Connors & McCormick:
How then do we judge whether an action is right or wrong? We need to consider the following:
How then do we judge whether an action is right or wrong? We need to consider the following:
- Intent - what is the goal of our action? what do we want to happen? It must be obvious that in order for an action to be good, the intention must be good. One cannot a good action with a bad intention!
- Means - how do we accomplish our goal? what do we do in order to reach that goal? Intention alone is not enough for us to judge whether an action is right or wrong. For example, scientist wants to look for a cure for cancer in order that he may save lives-however the only way he can do that is through life-threatening experimentation with 2 month old babies. Is that okay? Of course not.
- Circumstances
- Consequences
- Alternatives
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how then can we say if an intention is good? A good for a person might be evil for someone else. please elaborate.
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