If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it are justifiable.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting yo

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If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it are justifiable.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

The presented issue of if a goal is worthy than any means that one takes to achieve this goal is justifiable is as forceful as it is ludicrous. The statement immediately has a negative tone to it due suggesting that any means, no matter the cost, are justifiable is the end goal is worthy. First what is ‘worthy’, worthy is a very vague term. Secondly even thinking superficially about the given topic, it is clear that taking any means to achieve is a goal is absurd.

Looking firstly at the word ‘worthy’. If a goal is worthy to me, does it automatically mean it is worth to you? Of course not! It could, in fact, be completely worthless to you. To the leaders in North Korea, it may very well be seen as worthy to develop nuclear capabilities: to defend their home and the great land that they live in. However, it is clear to us, living in a western world, that developing nuclear weapons is not a worthy cause and is a danger to humanity itself. Hence the issue given is plagued by the issue of the point of view of the person/company/institution that is attempting to reach their goal.
Moving onto the second half of the provided issue, stating that if a goal is worthy then it is justified to take any means to attain it. ‘Any means’ is an extremely strong word choice, we normally see it only in movies where soldiers are told use ‘any means necessary’ to find the president. Let’s say that Australia is developing a new smart phone that far surpasses the current phones in the United States and a businessman considers it worthy to ensure that America’s smartphone is the best in the world. Even if one could argue that this is worthy; keeping jobs in the USA, ensuring that the USA remains a world technological leader, is any means necessary really justifiable? Surely dropping a nuclear bomb on Sydney - where the smart phone is being developed - in any way, shape or form cannot be seen as justifiable.

Malaria is the biggest killer out of all virus’, diseases or other forms of unnatural deaths. This would be seen, at least in most people’s opinions, as a worthy cause. Two situations could exist to attain this goal. Firstly the means could out weight the benefit, even if it as noble as eradicating the world’s greatest killer, perhaps a virus that would kill all Mozzies in the entire world would have to be released. However, this would result in an ecosystem collapse that would result in world famine. Obviously, in this situation, the means could not be justified. However, it is certainly possible that a simple vaccine could be developed that would protect humans from contracting Malaria. In this cause ‘any means’ could point to spending billions of dollars – which many would consider a reasonable price to pay for the benefits that are gained. However due to the strong exact language exhibited in the statement this possible situation does not change my view that the given statement is preposterous.

Ultimately I have to completely and irrevocably disagree with the provided statement. There is simply no way that using any means to achieve a worthy goal is justifiable. The vague definition of ‘worthy goal’ presents an issue in determining what an ‘worthy goal’ actually entitles. Combining this with the uncompromising ‘any means’ allowable people to take actions which are not remotely justifiable to regular people, results in a statement which I find impossible to agree to.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 492, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...use and is a danger to humanity itself. Hence the issue given is plagued by the issue...
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, well, as for, at least, in fact, of course

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 43.0 19.5258426966 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2937.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 592.0 442.535393258 134% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96114864865 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93265142912 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08337596061 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491554054054 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 919.8 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.1813984041 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.892857143 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1428571429 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.82142857143 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188316510668 0.243740707755 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0604720568776 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0535892490322 0.0758088955206 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118633605693 0.150359130593 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0341543480907 0.0667264976115 51% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 100.480337079 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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