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.
People are not always driven by morally correct actions. Sometimes it's just the circumstances that force people to do things even though they might feel guilty about it. Infact, people console themselves that such an action was required. So, it is not the amount of good or the amount of bad that defines moral correctiveness but the view of the people.
The perspective of every person varies towards what they find morally acceptable. A thief who steals food for his starving family might think it is correct while on the oher hand, the people who have been robbed may not share the same view. The family might have been saving money for some medical expense or the robber might have inadvertently stolen something important that the family valued so much, leaving the family to grieve. In this case, one cannot decide which side is good or bad. Its all the perception of each individual.
Sometimes we can find that the good outweighs the bad and is required. An example would be new schemes implemented by government to help the poor and needy. The government might pass an ordinance to waver all the current education and agricultural loans which will result in a lot of good for the poor, however, the banks who sactioned the loans suffer a great loss. But it is clearly obvious that this action is morally correct.
On the other hand, something which might seem morally right and help a lot of people might have one outright disadvantage. For example, a new factory is opening and people are provided with a lot of jobs, but the factory produces a lot of toxic waste that is harmful for the environment. The factory helps improve the lives of thousands of people but at the same time degrades the environment. There's always two sides to a coin and the amount of good or bad is not a measurable quantity.
Also, the reason states that the results are more important than the intent but not always the result goes against the intent. It is the circumstance that changes it and if one proceeds with the same intent again and again, there is no guarantee that the result will always be against. Sometimes it might favour the intent and might result in bad things.
To conclude, an action cannot be always categorized as morally correct or wrong. Sometimes, a situtation might demand certain actions that might not seem right but nevertheless required. And to claim, actions that result in more good than more bad seems absurd when good and bad is based on perspective and is not quantifiable. Hence, anything that deos good is welcome but when an action involves any amount of bad, its better to read the situation more clearly and take a decision rather than saying the good outweighs the bad.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 395, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: There's
...the same time degrades the environment. Theres always two sides to a coin and the amou...
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Line 11, column 161, Rule ID: BUT_NEVERTHELESS[1]
Message: Use simply 'but'.
Suggestion: but
...rtain actions that might not seem right but nevertheless required. And to claim, actions that re...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, while, for example, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 58.6224719101 61% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2241.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 472.0 442.535393258 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74788135593 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48131392799 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468220338983 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 686.7 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.4736586318 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.375 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.79166666667 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.346236227567 0.243740707755 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102760339491 0.0831039109588 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104366179917 0.0758088955206 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184322341116 0.150359130593 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.142741664666 0.0667264976115 214% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.27 12.1639044944 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.42 8.38706741573 88% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 100.480337079 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
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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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.