RE: Can two wrongs ever make a right?
February 7, 2017 at 10:46 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2017 at 10:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 7, 2017 at 10:42 pm)pool the great Wrote: Can two wrongs ever make a right? The underlying question is whether it is moral to sacrifice morals for the greater good.IMO, you're confusing practical necessity with moral imperative. You may have to kill someone to stop them from killing, but that doesn't make killing them right (nor am I maintaining here, btw, that's it's wrong to do so), only necessary.
Killing terrorists can be said as an example. You're countering a wrong with another wrong which results in a right.
Quote:Is it moral? You could consider any act that results in a positive outcome as an act that could be considered moral. However, this leads to a slippery slope where systematically killing humans to control overpopulation as a moral act.It also leads to two "wrongs" still being wrong since you would be considering two acts with negative outcomes.
Quote:Thoughts?That two wrongs never make a right, even if two wrongs may, sometimes, cancel one or the other out. Also, that I'm willing to be in the wrong, from time to time, particularly in the face of necessity.
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