Is virtue absolute, or is it circumstantial? Say you kill a man in order to protect someone you love. Is this justified? Do the ends justify means? Say you poison and kill 100,000 people in your own country in order to establish power over them, to ultimately protect them in the future. Is this wrong?
What about the meanst justifying the end? What if you go into something with good intentions, but you end up being responsible for something terrible. What if you are a scientist, trying to discover a cure for cancer, but end up creating something ten times deadlier. Is what you did evil?
What role does one's own motivations play in detirmining whether or not something is right or wrong? What is the standard?
Please, discuss.
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