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.
Everyone in this world has a choice. It is upto them, whether to do something good or do something bad. While these two sentiments are highly subjective, it is not morally correct if the amount of good that results from an action is greater than the amount of bad results from that action. It is not simple arithmetic! Arithmetic cannot be applied to feelings - even for the most apathetic person.
I feel that this claim is only partially correct. The only correct part was that the end result has turned out to be a good deed. There are many examples where the claim can be stated false. Suppose there is huge unrest among the citizens and the government orders the authorities to charge on to them, that is bad! Its morally incorrect to beat up hundreds of citizens but the end result was peace, right? The people have calmed down but still, the method used to mollify the mob was rather violent and morally incorrect.
Another example may be, a typical criminal father who just wants to earn money to help his young child struggling with a certain illness, has chosen this path of robbery or even murder. Here also, the end motive is good deed - very fatherly, but the path chosen is morally wrong - killing people or robbing people is incorrect and should be penalized(not that it is not penalized).
I would like to say that while assessing the morality of the actions, it is equally necessary to judge the intent of action and thereby the course of action - while the nature of the outcome is irrelevant at this point, the actions or methods taken to perform the good deed should also be assessed and speaking of the result - whether good or bad, if the path toward the end result is a bad pathe, it should be considered as morally incorrect and not just based on the result of the action.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'still', 'while', 'i feel', 'speaking of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.2 0.240241500013 83% => OK
Verbs: 0.169014084507 0.157235817809 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0957746478873 0.0880659088768 109% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0788732394366 0.0497285424764 159% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0338028169014 0.0444667217837 76% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0957746478873 0.12292977631 78% => OK
Participles: 0.0422535211268 0.0406280797675 104% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.34984598045 2.79330140395 84% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0338028169014 0.030933414821 109% => OK
Particles: 0.00845070422535 0.0016655270985 507% => OK
Determiners: 0.121126760563 0.0997080785238 121% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0197183098592 0.0249443105267 79% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0056338028169 0.0148568991511 38% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1801.0 2732.02544248 66% => OK
No of words: 327.0 452.878318584 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.50764525994 6.0361032391 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.58838876751 93% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.336391437309 0.366273622748 92% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.211009174312 0.280924506359 75% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.107033639144 0.200843997647 53% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0672782874618 0.132149295362 51% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34984598045 2.79330140395 84% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 219.290929204 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.525993883792 0.48968727796 107% => OK
Word variations: 55.0238738987 55.4138127331 99% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6194690265 68% => OK
Sentence length: 23.3571428571 23.380412469 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 113.847015144 59.4972553346 191% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 128.642857143 141.124799967 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3571428571 23.380412469 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.642857142857 0.674092028746 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 44.4580602883 51.4728631049 86% => OK
Elegance: 1.2 1.64882698954 73% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.580600636343 0.391690518653 148% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.126534055902 0.123202303941 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0949862531847 0.077325440228 123% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.518499636579 0.547984918172 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.210716420276 0.149214159877 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.199116637741 0.161403998019 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.193180197858 0.0892212321368 217% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.324594544127 0.385218514788 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0212294770479 0.0692045440612 31% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.389573348778 0.275328986314 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.146194517374 0.0653680567796 224% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.4325221239 38% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 7.22455752212 42% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 3.66592920354 164% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 13.5995575221 74% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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