Is doing a good thing for a bad reason still good?

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  1. Indie Anthias

    Indie Anthias Unabash'd Rubbernecker
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    My outer-layer response is that I am very much on the motives side. Results are unpredictable and no basis for a moral judgment... nobody could be held to answer for such randomness.

    My inner-layer response is that "good" and "bad" are completely illusionary. Ask "good" or "bad" for what? in any given scenario and you find an infinite number of answers. Humans? Life? Earth? Me?

    "Morality is the herd instinct in the individual." -Friedrich Nietzsche

    That quote is to illustrate that even without bringing religion into it, morality is just an evolutionarily-emplanted urge we feel that increased our survivability.

    Motives are ultimately no basis for moral judgment either.

    Except in these examples.
     
    #21 Indie Anthias, Mar 9, 2011
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