The Ends & Means

Do the ends justify the means?

If not all of the time, but sometimes, then when?

 

Sometimes, and I would say it would depend on who/what may or may to be trampled in the process of getting to the ends. It's on a case by case basis.

 

I am not sure such a generic questioning can be answered, tbh.

As a general principle, though, the answer is a clear "No."

 

Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias say yes.

 

This is akin to me asking:

"Is it ok to do something?" with no clarification over what "something" is

 

An LWS question deserves an LWS answer, yes and no.

 

Yes until its no.

 

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Do end means justify thoughts? Questions and answers? Lamps?

 

Generally speaking, yes.

 

I don't see how the question is at all ambiguous, but is a rather fundamental one.

To provide the "details" that everyone seems to want is to defeat the purpose of the question, which is to specifically discuss the question itself, on its own merits, and unfettered by any particularities which may either cause or result from it.

But, if you need some examples:

Is it ok to kill someone to prevent another being killed?

Is it ok to steal from a thief?

Is it ok to commit a lawless act so as to overturn an unjust law?

 

Yes, assuming you mean murder or possibly war

No

Depends on definiton of unjust.

 

how is stealing from a thief an ends justify the means argument?

 

We just learned Tenny is Robin Hood

 

Little John, IMO

 

It depends on the means, and it depends on the ends.

 

So does that make the 8th Tenny's Merry Men?

 

Hell no

 

[video=youtube;k6_wDegoyLw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6_wDegoyLw[/video]

 

1) sometimes

2) No (assuming you are "stealing" your own possession or someone else's on their behalf's back)

3) Are you asking if I hate America? Because that's exactly how America came to be.

 

Some would say that stealing from a thief is justice.