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.
In today's world, it is not uncommon to hear debates about morality of actions. The prompt suggests an action is morally correct if the amount of good that results from it is greater than the amount of bad. The prompt further gives us reason that in assessing the morality of an action, the results are more important than the intent. I mostly disagree with the prompt for three reasons.
First of all, an action that produces more good results than bad results doesn't mean the action is morally correct. Moral has to do with upholding good values, virtue, or discipline and this sometimes may not apply to all types of decisions. Take for instance, technological developments. A good example of this is the invention of airplane by the Wright brothers. This invention has made it extremely easier to move from place to place; across countries or continents, conveniently and faster. However, like for every invention, there are cons to this invention such as loss of lives from plane crashes. Despite this, we can all agree that the good this invention has brought mankind outweighs the bad. So can we call the action of the Wright brothers "morally right" because of this? For all we know, they could be bad people with little or no morals, but were smart enough to make this invention. So no, it simply foresight and innovation, and has nothing to do with morals.
However, there are cases where good results reflect the morality of the action or the person/people behind the action. For example, consider someone who receives donations to charity organizations. While it’s his/her duty to make sure those funds are used to take care of under-privileged people, he/she could also decide to use the money for personal gains. So doing the right thing here, although it’s the person's job, is what we call a morally correct act, because they could have easily gone sideways.
Lastly, as previously mentioned, an action producing more good results than bad doesn't automatically make the action morally upright. Bad people can also make actions that produce more good than bad, that doesn't make their actions morally correct. For instance, if a thief robs a bank and donates a portion of that money to charity, does that make such an action morally correct? Of course not! While the intent might be good, the source and morality of the thief negates such act of kindness.
In conclusion, the morality of an action cannot simply be determined by comparing how much good it produces and neglecting the intent of the person or people performing the action. It simply doesn't work that way. An action that results in more good than bad can both be morally correct or not.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, lastly, may, so, while, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, of course, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2235.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 456.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90131578947 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62105577807 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54619429317 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491228070175 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 681.3 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.8240376751 60.3974514979 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 89.4 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.24 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.44 5.21951772744 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.53044528921 0.243740707755 218% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.171159866553 0.0831039109588 206% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.211636036732 0.0758088955206 279% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.359479564992 0.150359130593 239% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.146615151298 0.0667264976115 220% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.1392134831 76% => 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: 11.14 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.