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Is it ever right to do the wrong thing for the right reason?
Well, that depends on who you ask obviously, but in short, yes. Immanuel Kant stressed the importance of motive in actions, and stated that an action only had moral virtue if it was done for the “right” reasons (he outined what these were in his essays), and that no action done for the wrong reason had moral virtue.
What is it called when you choose one thing over another?
prefer. VERB. 1 Like (one thing or person) better than another or others; tend to choose.
What is it called when someone wants to be right?
4. There are many words to describe someone who always needs to be right, including indomitable, adamant, unrelenting, insistent, intransigent, obdurate, unshakeable, dictatorial.
Do the right thing not things right?
Tactical thinkers tend to focus on “doing things right,” and strategic thinkers are concerned with “doing the right things.” If you do something “right,” but it’s the wrong thing to do, your efforts will be futile. Conversely, if you do the “right thing,” but you do it wrong, you’ll also fail miserably.
What is it called when there is a relationship between two things?
linkage. noun. a connection made between two or more things.
Do the right thing is never wrong?
Quote by Mark Twain: “It is never wrong to do the right thing.”
Is doing the wrong thing the right thing to do?
It’s the right thing to do. Doing the wrong thing for thE right reason simoly yields the wrong thing. A concious chouce to do the wrong thing is, in effect, an additional wrong thing. By doing the wrong thing, you open yourself up to the logical repercussions of whatever that wrong this is.
Do you know the difference between right and wrong?
First of all, there’s no such thing as right and wrong. Your right can be my wrong and vice versa. Right and wrong, as well as good and bad, are based in ideologies based on feelings. Feelings aren’t facts, feelings are subjective. Okay. We got that out of the way. Now let me show you an example. This picture is from Dove’s Love Your Body-campaign.
Is life worth doing the wrong thing?
Life is important and it is worth doing anything you can do to save it. No matter what the cost is. Some people do know that they do the wrong thing but for the right reason. Many people what the wrong thing is but still do it for a good reason. But the wrong thing is not always the right thing.
Does right reason ever justify wrong doing?
No. Right reason almost never justify wrong doing. Murder is murder, rape is rape. Just because some asshole sincerely believe raping a lesbian would cure her of her “perversion”, doesn’t make rape any less heinous.