Claim: An action is morally correct if the amount of good that results from the action is greater than the amount of bad that results from the action.
Reason: When assessing the morality of an action, the results of the action are more important than the intent of the person or people performing the action.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim AND the reason on which that claim is based.
The claim, that an action is "good" if it produces more good than bad is a fallacious argument, that even with the reasoning, cannot be presented as a complete argument, and should be discounted until more proof could be provided. The argument that any action is good or bad based off of results is one that should not be used in everyday use. I disagree with this argument and the reasoning for it and think that it could cause more harm than anything else.
The argument that an action is good or bad based on the results should not be one that crosses out mind in the general public. Although cutting off another driver may produce a better flow of traffic for the many cars behind you, that does not mean that the action of cutting off another driver should be encouraged. Although it is true that waiting until the last moment to merge would produce a more cohesive and better traffic flow, that doesn't discount the actions initial actions that anther human was inconvenienced for the convenience of others.
The "good" or "bad" of an action, without an objective morality, are not able to be determined. Although you may see the actions as "good" I may see them as "bad" when using my morality to assess them. This means that although I may see going into another county and preaching a religion as a good thing, others, with different moralities, may indeed disagree and they have a right to. This means that it isn't possible to objectively determine if a result is good or not. That would be dependent on one's own morality. This is the root of the issue for this argument. If one could not objectively determine of the action is good or bad, how are we to know if the action is good or bad?
The thought that the results of ones actions are more important than the intent could lead to some serious consequences in which a very bad actions could result in a good outcome for the most number of people. This would then lead the population to praise the individual, and by extension their actions even if it were not morally right. Take for instance if Hitler had become victorious in World War Two. The people that think Hitler was right would praise the actions of the Hollocaust even though those actions are objectively terrible and should in no way be praised. This would lead to an entire population of people who think that is is morally right to assasinate the Jewish people as a whole; and that should be morally repulsive to everyone.
Although the argument that the actions that causes the most good for the most number of people is one that makes the world relatively easy to understand and to quickly find the "good" and the "bad" things, it can cause some unintended consequences that should be addressed beforehand. If objective moralities were established and agreed upon by all of the people effeced by this it would be a much better reason for implementing this thought process.
The point in all of this is that morality in these cases is subjective and would be difficult to parse out a moral right and wrong if there were no objective morality to follow. Because of the difficulty and problems outlined here, I disagree with the statement that actions are good or bad based off of the outcomes and not the intent behind them. I feel this could lead to the degredation of entire societies of social norms and cause a great deal of harm to those around the decision makers.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, so, then, for instance, i feel, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.5258426966 195% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 28.0 11.3162921348 247% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 61.0 33.0505617978 185% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2876.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 608.0 442.535393258 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73026315789 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9656475924 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72063139364 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.398026315789 0.4932671777 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 896.4 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.4475662874 60.3974514979 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.043478261 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4347826087 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.21739130435 5.21951772744 42% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.335753504693 0.243740707755 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115648720391 0.0831039109588 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0914397230067 0.0758088955206 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201130485625 0.150359130593 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0720696928238 0.0667264976115 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.45 12.1639044944 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 100.480337079 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.