Poll: Do the Ends Justify the Means?

[ThatLankyBastard]

Would you be willing to do something terrible if you knew some good would come out of it?

 

[TheTurtleMan]

It's totally dependent upon the situation. If I had to kill someone for the cure to cancer, then the good easily outweighs the bad. Although if I'm put in a situation where the means do more harm than the ends do good, then the ends would be pointless.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Well if something good came of it it wouldn't be terrible now would it? The 'ends' should also include the means as the means have occurred and are therefore part of the end result. So if there was an action that was independently terrible yet the overall result was one of great goodness, then the terrible act would be part of the summative good, meaning the final result would be greatly good inclusive of the terrible bad that happened (meaning that, without the terrible bad the good would be so amazingly extreme that it would probably solve world hunger or something).

So sure, why not.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Depends on what means and ends we're lookin' at.

 

[BenzSmoke]

If it was something really bad, I probably wouldn't do it.

 

[Eri]

The ends almost always justifies the means.