Means are Matters

The author E. F. Schumacher in his book titled Small is Beautiful, insisted the quote “End justifies the means” to forward a solution for the economic problems as everybody can be rich. It was a statement that was suggested by Niccolo Machiavelli in his book titled “The Prince”. According to the Wikipedia definition this is an ethical theory of holding that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct named consequentialism. That means the final achievement will balance the all possibilities and ways passed to find the end. It is an irrational quote that destroys the all values of the community. So I want to refute the quote by replacing the phrase “End doesn’t justify the means”. It is distinguished that of consequentialism and its philosophy known as ‘deontology’ (Wikipedia). This theory explains that the means always attached to rules and regulations thus it needs to be in moral way. With the emphasizing of religious teachings additionally the threat of ethics and important of journey are the essential factors that descends the phrase ‘end justifies the means’.

All most all the religions in the world emphasize the good way to lead their endings. Generally religious teachings always follow the preaching of their own God. Almost all the religious belief system emphasize on a devotional purified soul path that led to the salvation. No religion in the world taught that the path of your goal could be evil. For example if we take Hinduism as well as Buddhism, both religion are believed in ‘karma’. Karma is the law of cause and effect that can lead one to salvation. It means, according to the deeds of the action of present life, the next life will be affecte...

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... of the worldly life. So that it is said that the journey is important.

In short, when we say justifies it is directly meant by ‘right’. Accordingly the ways of figure out the end justifies the end is meant that whatever the means, evil or strange, it will be considered as good while it gives the final result. In my view, it is completely incorrect. These kinds of phrases are like addressing the youngsters to do evil things to find their goal. Still some may refute my view that end doesn’t justify the means by showing the ramifications, but this is a blame reason to do evil things. Since we are not omniscient we are not able to know the reaction of every action. So, it is better to keep on track in our actions, which travels towards the goal. Finally, end does not justify the means ever because every end is just the means to some other end.

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