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 statement attempts to bridge a relationship between the moral stand of an activity and the intent of the person or people performing the action. The claim says that, an action is justifiable if its outcome is good and the reason behind that claim is that, result of an action is more important than the intent of the person doing it. I certainly agree with the claim that, action should be carried on if it's good outweighs the bad result. But at the same time I think, intent of the person performing the action is important and that is why I find the reasoning of the claim indefensible.
In our everyday life, we do different types of job, we do communicate with people, help them in need, try to solve conflict. However, most of our works are based on the reasoning that, whether that task is doing good to the person or community that we are serving. If our action is not bringing any good to the society, there is no justification of doing that. But the problem is that, in most of the case, we can not judge the situation beforehand because we can not predict the final outcome. In that situation, the morality of our action is based mostly on our intent. If a person's intent is good, than his action should be considered justifiable from the normative standpoint.
We live in a world where emotion plays an important role in defining our course of action. Sometimes we can not control our emotion and thus it affect our true intention and eventually actions. For example, if we consider the incident of atomic bomb explosion during WWII in japan, from a normative standpoint, that type of action is unjustifiable. That explosion took millions of life and japan is still paying for that atrocity because of its atomic radiation. Now, if we look at the incident from the point of practicality, that type of action eventually makes sense. Because of that incident, Japan moved its back from the war and the atrocity of the WWII abated to a large extent. That single action reduced the length of WWII to a large extent. So, if we look at the intent of the action, that was justifiable. So, we can not judge a situation from its immediate result, but the implication and intent of the action is also important.
Lastly, we can say that, it is unjustifiable to judge the moral standing of an action just from the result, rather actions should be justified from its implication and actual intent. There can be situation when, the intent was good but the action did not work out perfectly. Just based on the result, we should not judge the merit of an action.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 601, Rule ID: COMMA_THAN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'then'?
Suggestion: then
...ur intent. If a persons intent is good, than his action should be considered justifi...
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Line 3, column 144, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'affects'?
Suggestion: affects
...can not control our emotion and thus it affect our true intention and eventually actio...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, lastly, look, so, still, thus, for example, i think
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2107.0 2235.4752809 94% => OK
No of words: 459.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.59041394336 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62863751936 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58536367917 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 215.323595506 89% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.418300653595 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 657.0 704.065955056 93% => 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.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.960599436 60.3974514979 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 95.7727272727 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8636363636 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.40909090909 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.409657555684 0.243740707755 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.149147124481 0.0831039109588 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111434639611 0.0758088955206 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301886213837 0.150359130593 201% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.119145329846 0.0667264976115 179% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 14.1392134831 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 48.8420337079 139% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.1743820225 71% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 9.34 12.1639044944 77% => Coleman_liau_index is low.
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => The average readability is low. Need to improve 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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