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 an action are more important than the intent of the person or people performing that action.
The argument claims that an action is morally correct if the result has more goodness than badness. I generally agree with this contention for the following reasons.
To begin, we often observe that in order to achieve something good, at times, we might need to do certain things which are not that great. For example, let us take the example of the legendary folklore character, Robin Hood. We all have read about Robin Hood, how he used to rob from the rich and distribute the robbed items among the poor. Apparently, it might seem that he played a negative character, as robbing someone is not a fair deed, but if we observe very closely, we can understand that his reasons behind robbery were not immoral. He genuinely wanted to help the poor to thrive as in those days economically deprived people used to be tortured and harassed by the rich. Hence, we can say that in spite of being an outlaw, his actions were morally correct.
Furthermore, sometimes, when parents scold their children, the children might feel that their parents do not love or care for them. On the other hand, since parents love and care too much for their children, they tend to guide them when they feel that their children are doing something wrong. At times, this might be in terms of scolding, but they do not mean any harm to the children, rather prevent them from doing activities which are inappropriate for their age. For example, if a parent finds his son smoking at the age of ten, then he should refrain his son from that habit. In the beginning, he might try to talk, explain the disadvantages of smoking, but still if his son continues with this habit, then the parent is left with little choice but to scold him and in that case, it is totally justified.
Finally, some might argue that immoral actions cannot be justified, even if the result is for the greater good. While it is irrefutable to deny it, but it is probably beneficial if we judge the actions on a broader perspective and try to understand whether the outcomes are doing more good than bad.
In conclusion, we need to understand that an action should be judged as moral or immoral based on the outcomes. If the result is for the general good, then we may call the action to be moral.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 193, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hen we may call the action to be moral.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, finally, furthermore, hence, if, may, so, still, then, while, for example, in conclusion, in spite of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 58.6224719101 73% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1851.0 2235.4752809 83% => OK
No of words: 402.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.60447761194 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41925238645 2.79657885939 87% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522388059701 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 563.4 704.065955056 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.6556219022 60.3974514979 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.882352941 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6470588235 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.05882352941 5.21951772744 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.245578856781 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105352827694 0.0831039109588 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.151518552723 0.0758088955206 200% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213288605723 0.150359130593 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.136933040735 0.0667264976115 205% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 48.8420337079 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.7 12.1639044944 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 100.480337079 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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