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If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?
by saint_fiasco 10y ago
If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?
- Swizec 10y agoMaybe you shouldn't use means that need justifying in the first place?
- saint_fiasco 10y agoBut then why do anything at all?
- manifestsilence 10y agoExactly - certain means are perhaps inherently not justifiable. Consequentialism vs. other competing philosophical stances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism
- saint_fiasco 10y agoI see. So the interesting moral claim is not "the end justify the means" (which is too obvious) but rather "For every mean there exists at least one end that can justify it", which is controversial.