to make themselves feel good inside and bc it feels morally right
"Are morally good acts willed by God because they are morally good, or are they morally good because they are willed by God?"
The Euthyphro dilemma. "Are morally good acts willed by God because they are morally good, or are they morally good because they are willed by God?"
It's better than nothing, but the ethically responsible thing to do is allow same-sex marriage.
When you know that in the situation would be morally wrong. To go by what is right and what is ethically the right thing to do in the situation.
Doing the right thing is good. But there is a difference in what you want to be the right thing and the actual right thing to do. Life is a fork in the road; you've always got to differentiate right from left and right from wrong.
Doing the right thing is good. But there is a difference in what you want to be the right thing and the actual right thing to do. Life is a fork in the road; you've always got to differentiate right from left and right from wrong.
Morally good characters encounter disaster in a tragedy.
Another important thing that goes hand and hand with the greater good is the saying that "The end justifies the means" in other words, "At the beginning of an action I might not be able to determine whether that action is morally right or wrong, but when the morally right goal is successfully achieved, then the steps which led to it must be morally right too." "I shall do a minor evil to achieve a greater good." Or "My aim for greater good makes all the evils I have done right."
Ethical
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yes, there is. Some would argue that the taking of life (killing someone) is morally wrong. A counter-argument might be if in self-defence, the taking of a life might be morally right, since it preserves another's life. However, this does not contradict the point that the taking of a life is still morally wrong. Indeed, the taking of a life can be both morally right and morally wrong.