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 often believe that truly altruistic acts do not exist. Though it is not false, we must not forget the primary distinction between a good and a bad act : the intent. The claim argues that an action which eventually resulted in good should be considered good act. Further the reason specifies that the results are more important judgement criteria for an action than the intent behind. I think this is just as fallacious as saying 'I hit the person for his own good!'. I do not completely agree with the claim and result for the following 2 points.
Taking result as the primary parameter to discern whether an act is good or bad is like the justification given after doing a blunder. For instance, in recent years there have been many cases of elephant poaching in the district of Kerala, India. The poachers primarily kill the elephants for their tusks and hide. Even some of the internal forest department also turn their face away when such grievious acts are carried out. These poachers and the department later claim that the elephants had to be decimated because they were creating havoc in the neighbouring villages. While it maybe true in some cases, and it might have reduced the danger for the villagers, that was not the reason why it was carried out. Many of the elephants were calm and didn't do any harm to villages. Here, even though some of the outcomes of the act were favorable, the intent for doing it was not righteous. And hence, it is morally incorrect to do so.
The reason stated in the prompt mentions that assessment should be done on the basis of results. Here, I do beg to differ because, immediate results of an action are not the only outcomes of the act. The long term effects of an action are often neglected and many a times not even connected with the particular action. For example, the building of Narmada canal, destroyed a vast expanse of forest arrea for the sake of development. The exemplary results were more than conspicuous just after the construction as it improved the water supply in drier regions and helped the state better manage its water resources. But the long term effect on the environment such as poor water retention and lesser oxygen supply is not connected with it. So even though results were good, the intent was to enhance the humanly needs.
In contrast when the intention is innocuous, it doesn't always guarantee that the results will be good too. The fantastic example of this is the creation of atomic bomb. When oppenheimer was creating the formula for atomic reactions he didn't have plans for the mass destruction of humanity in his mind, but still his invention was used for the very same purpose. Even though there have been some debates that he knew about the possible implications of his newfound invention, he was not exactly aware of it. So can we call it a morally correct act or not? The answer is not very easy to discuss.
So, I think it is very subjective topic and we cannot find an ideal or correct answer to this claim. There do not exist a clear cut set of rules which can classify an act into good or bad. However, as humans we should always be mindful of the intent behind an deed because we are probably the best judges of our own actions.
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Suggestion: some
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, may, so, still, while, as to, even so, for example, for instance, i think, in contrast, such as, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.5258426966 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2665.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 575.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.6347826087 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89685180668 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4261163578 2.79657885939 87% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485217391304 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 828.0 704.065955056 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.4023075048 60.3974514979 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.9677419355 118.986275619 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5483870968 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.54838709677 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249061100805 0.243740707755 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0667329608968 0.0831039109588 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0910426826098 0.0758088955206 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148797372138 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0992236861504 0.0667264976115 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 14.1392134831 69% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 48.8420337079 144% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 12.1743820225 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.57 12.1639044944 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 100.480337079 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 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.