RE: Overpopulation: You get to cast the deciding vote.
July 11, 2015 at 3:57 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2015 at 4:10 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 11, 2015 at 2:49 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(July 11, 2015 at 10:24 am)Chuck Wrote: Ultimately nothing can be right or wrong except through appeal to the desirability of its consequences. To argue think something can be right or wrong in itself without regard to its global consequences is to shatter any pretense to relevance of the very concept of right or wrong.
"The ends justify the means" - agree, or disagree? (I happen to disagree, YMMV.)
The consequences, not the ends, if ends if used to mean intentions.
The desirability of the overall probable consequences justifies the means, always. Further more desirability of overall probable consequences provides the complete justification for the means, and no other form of justification is admissible.
Nothing can be good whose overall probable consequence is bad. If its probable overall consequence is good, then it is kindergarten level intellectual infantilism to call it bad, for what possible material meaning would good have in that case, then?
