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 author claims that the morality of the action is measured by the amount of good and the bad that the action does. he says, the action is morally correct if there are more good results of the action than the bad consequences. I partially agree with the author's claim because of the following reasons.
First, if an action is producing negative effects on the environment, then I would say it is a bad action. Whatever may be the good consequences the action produces as long as there is some suffering happens. For example, if an interviewee lied about some of the projects in the resume, consequently he gets hired for the job. later, in the job he may not be properly skilled to do that particular job for which he was hired, which might cause damage to the productivity of the company. here, lying of the person has a serious corollary on the company, which sometimes leads to loss in millions of dollors to the company. Moreover, he might be the reason for some other potential candidate to not get hired for the job. sometimes, our moral actions might seem harmless, but can have huge negative impact in the later stages.
Second, one should be able to assess the consequences before doing something wrong. if someone cannot evade doing wrong, or the outcome of doing something against the accepted decorum, he/she should be able to measure all the possible outcomes and weight the impact. To illustrate, it is not morally correct to jump a signal, or skip a queue. However, if there is an emergency situation and also the roads are empty, though it is against the accepted norms, it is okay it jump the signal in this case. As the pros are out numbered by the cons in the above mentioned example. one should always measure all the possible consequences before doing something wrong, or something against the accepted morals.
Finally, there might be cases where there is no harm whatsoever. For example, a baby is not having food for some random reason. The parent can lie to the kid, inorder for the kid to have the food. In this case, though lying is against accepted decorum, it is okay to lie to the kid, as there are no cons at all. The consequence of lying here is the kid having the food, which is a good outcome of a bad action.
However, one might argue that an action is always morally correct if the good results are outnumbered by the bad. I do not completely argue with them, but the size of the impact should be measured before performing the action. it does not always hold true. it depends on the situation and the impact of the action. but in my view, it is always better to stick to the accepted morals of the society to live in the society harmoniously.
In conclusion, the definition of an action to be morally correct cannot be formulised, but it should be assessed case by case basis. The morality of an action always depends on the collolaries of the action. Hence, I partially disagree with the action.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, then, for example, in conclusion, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2440.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 527.0 442.535393258 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.62998102467 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79129216042 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52040843749 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.415559772296 0.4932671777 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 768.6 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.7065839272 60.3974514979 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 84.1379310345 118.986275619 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1724137931 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.55172413793 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 7.80617977528 154% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 17.0 5.13820224719 331% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35921210603 0.243740707755 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118215980004 0.0831039109588 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.155734480374 0.0758088955206 205% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.238352107447 0.150359130593 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.178589984014 0.0667264976115 268% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 14.1392134831 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.28 12.1639044944 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.2 8.38706741573 86% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 100.480337079 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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