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.
As it has been rightly said that " All actions have consequences". The morality of the action can be calculated on the basis of its consequences. Action that results in more good than bad can be considered morally correct. Since we live in a society, it is quite often that the repercussions of our actions are considered good if they benefit the larger mass of our society. The intent, whatever it might be have been, doesn't really matter if the consequences serve to be beneficiary to the society. Critics are going to criticize the actions but as long as the amount of good that results from the action outweighs the amount of bad, i think it is morally correct.
The society that we live in comprises of people with variety of needs. To satiate all the needs of the populace is whimsical. But if the action has consequences that satiates majority of the needs' of people, it is morally correct. Taking example of the recent demonetization in India, the government attempted to curb the menace of black money and corruption through this stricture action. The good that will result from this action is certainly going to outweigh the scanty adversities faced by the citizens. There has been an immense support from the citizens as well. But still critics especially the opposition are not favoring the decision. They condemn the decision stating that the action has led to mass unemployment and various other problem. But still the nation as a whole has proved them wrong.
The consequences of any action are certainly not in the hands of its doer. Only after a certain time will it be apparent if the action was good or bad. All that really matters is the result. If the beneficiaries outweigh the adversaries, the action can be deemed good. Thus actions that are propitious to many and not so to few are morally correct. Like in times of war, the leaders of the nation are faced with great many difficult choices.Choices are made on the basis of greater good for the nation. The intent then does not really matter if the consequences are to benefit the nation. Even if the intent is irreverent, if the resulting action will benefit more people than it harms, then they are quite reluctant to take such action.
The morality of action depends more on the consequences rather than the intent. Because even if the intent was wrong, if the action proves beneficial to the greater mass, then such actions are morally correct. Finally the consequences will reflect the action and not the tacit intent.
So to conclude an action can be deemed morally correct if it results in more amount of good than bad. The intent does have a role in deciding the morality of the action but it can be neglected if the consequences outweigh those malicious intent. If the societal benefits increase due to some action, and if they outnumber the difficulties , then such action are morally correct.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: doesn't
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Message: Did you mean 'comprises' or 'consists of'?
Suggestion: comprises; consists of
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Suggestion: Thus,
...rsaries, the action can be deemed good. Thus actions that are propitious to many and...
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... that are propitious to many and not so to few are morally correct. Like in times ...
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Suggestion: Finally,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, if, really, so, still, then, thus, well, i think
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2404.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 500.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.808 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69611106308 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 215.323595506 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.41 0.4932671777 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 752.4 704.065955056 107% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.4192823869 60.3974514979 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 82.8965517241 118.986275619 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2413793103 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.13793103448 5.21951772744 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.544282603274 0.243740707755 223% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168471504038 0.0831039109588 203% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.14552660127 0.0758088955206 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.36990498607 0.150359130593 246% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0665706740461 0.0667264976115 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 14.1392134831 69% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.8420337079 128% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.1743820225 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.32 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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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.