Philosophy Question

The Sniper

wwestern

Nope a righteous cause, will only be polluted by less righteous actions.

Rhamlin

wwestern:

Nope a righteous cause, will only be polluted by less righteous actions.

#1 you never saw the Duke sway from his principals in any of his movies. Even if the end result wasn't going to be a good one.

The Kid

NO, example, One could become indescribably more evil in his cause to destroy an evil thus by his actions exceeding the evil he is attempting to destroy.

Marker

Amos Umwhat

I'm pretty much in line with the above answers, the idea may be tempting, but to go forward can only be rationalization. It is the tippy-top of the slippery slope.

Amos Umwhat

The Kid

Rhamlin

Agreed while I can sit back and talk about principals and all that in the end you gotta do what you gotta do. Guess that makes me a flip-flopper.

james40

The problem here is that this is gray area question that really involves a definitive yes/no answer but in nature is going to evoke a gray area answer. So it depends on what the ends are and who they hurt. Personally, I believe no. However, there are certain situations (life/death) where I think this question does not have relevance and the ends most certainly justify the means.

laker1963

james40

laker1963

BigT06

Only if the means are equally as just as the reason. Just because some things are worth it, does not make them just.

stephen_hannibal

camgfs

The Sniper

james40

Not until you answer your own question... hehe.

The Kid

james40:

Not until you answer your own question... hehe.

+1

jasonusa1

To answer your first question... I think it's hard for anybody to really give an honest answer until they are in a specific situation that would warrant this type of decision. For example... If somebody every hurt my little girl, I would do things to them that not even I could presently imagine to be possible. As previously said, humans are the only species that would even raise this question. By societies standards, of course the answer is no. But it's that same society that let a young mother go free this summer after murdering her daughter (I know, another topic all together), so I have a hard time agreeing with with what society inherently decides as right and wrong when it's not their livelihood at stake. Let's go Red Sox.

The Sniper