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.
The issue that when assessing the morality of an action, if the outcome of good results are more than the bad one's then it is morally correct is a contentious one. Though both sides have their strengths and weaknesses, I believe the morality of an action not only depends on the results but also on the intention of the person doing the action.
Firstly, whenever we perform any action, if our reason for doing the action or in other words our intention behind it is benign and pristine, then we always undertake magnanimous ways to perform the action and thus the outcome of the action being good has very high chances.Thus an action here is considered moral as evil thoughts never came across the person's mind right from the start, during the course of the action and after the results.
Secondly, if we take an example of a rich businessman, who wants to give some charity to an orphanage. Now if he donates money or clothes or any material, without the notice of anyone around, then such a deed is a noble deed as the intention behind it was purely to be of some help to the young kids. But if the same person does this work infront of media, only to make some news then even if the outcome is positive it is against the morality of a person as even though he has donated but the intention behind it was only to gain publicity, such a deed is still considered immoral.
Furthermore, if we consider government employees in a country like India, it is their duty to crosscheck the documents or approve the documents to the higher authorities etc. But they will always delay the person's work till the person is tired and will offer him bribe to make his work done faster. Now, here if we see the outcome of him asking for money will be that work will be done but the debauchery behind it is bad. Thus again the intention of the employee is bad even if the outcome is good. This is another example of an immoral action due to evil intentions.
Some people may argue saying telling lies for a good reason is as good as telling the truth. But is it really so? Let's consider an example, if a soldier's mother has lost her son in the war and the officials are told by the son in advance not to inform his mother if he dies in the firings because on hearing the news she will die. Now in this case if the officials hide about her son's death from the mother is done for the betterment of the mother as she couldn't bear the loss. This action action can be considered moral.
In conclusion, I believe that the intention of a person performing the action ia above the outcome of the action performed. The reason being if the intention is good then it will have inner satisfaction of the good work and ignorance of the bad consequences of the action which will make the outcome also positive and thus the action can be considered morally correct.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: during
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Suggestion: couldn't
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'furthermore', 'if', 'may', 'really', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'thus', 'in conclusion', 'in other words']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.217857142857 0.240241500013 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.157142857143 0.157235817809 100% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0625 0.0880659088768 71% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0732142857143 0.0497285424764 147% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0571428571429 0.0444667217837 129% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.132142857143 0.12292977631 107% => OK
Participles: 0.0392857142857 0.0406280797675 97% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.39251591976 2.79330140395 86% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0214285714286 0.030933414821 69% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.155357142857 0.0997080785238 156% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0178571428571 0.0249443105267 72% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00714285714286 0.0148568991511 48% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2846.0 2732.02544248 104% => OK
No of words: 525.0 452.878318584 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42095238095 6.0361032391 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78673985869 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.291428571429 0.366273622748 80% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.194285714286 0.280924506359 69% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.110476190476 0.200843997647 55% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.08 0.132149295362 61% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39251591976 2.79330140395 86% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 219.290929204 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.426666666667 0.48968727796 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 49.1233480887 55.4138127331 89% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6194690265 87% => OK
Sentence length: 29.1666666667 23.380412469 125% => OK
Sentence length SD: 96.3735818778 59.4972553346 162% => OK
Chars per sentence: 158.111111111 141.124799967 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.1666666667 23.380412469 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.888888888889 0.674092028746 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.21349557522 134% => OK
Readability: 48.5952380952 51.4728631049 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.35403726708 1.64882698954 82% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.695955844194 0.391690518653 178% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.177050804818 0.123202303941 144% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.129952575273 0.077325440228 168% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.629593278531 0.547984918172 115% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.250106824407 0.149214159877 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.325174487444 0.161403998019 201% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.194280639012 0.0892212321368 218% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.489601095626 0.385218514788 127% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0731280009636 0.0692045440612 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.52832303282 0.275328986314 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.145729168825 0.0653680567796 223% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.4325221239 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.30420353982 151% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 13.5995575221 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.