“Arise,
awake, and stop not till the goal is reached”
Today I would like to share the essay on ethical
issues and its impact on our society. Ethics and social responsibility are
moral values should be adopted by human.
Every society and culture has different ways of
interpreting and defining ethics
development, understanding and application by the way their own culture or
society norms. It is universal and is applied to anything that relations to
individuals. We know that, generally
ethical issues refers to moral concerns about what is beneficial and
potentially harmful, moral values can have more impact on society. Decision
making is also an important part of it. The impact of ethics upon decision
making, it is the process of identifying problems and opportunities. Sometimes
the decision would be positive, but sometimes it would be negative under
different circumstances and the demand of the situation. Good (or) right
conduct is said to be ethical or moral. Bad or wrong conduct said to be
unethical or immoral. Philosophical view on ethics and different examples
discussed on mythology also we discussed, Prepare well friends, thank you.
Topic:
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the
end.---
India's mythological theory of “ Sam daam dand bhed” justify any mean to achieve right end, in western
philosophy same theory is known as consequentialism. However, Right end alone
can't be source of morality, for example bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
was done to defeat fascist power and stop the World War-II, war ended and many
lives too. Killing of innocent people can't be justified with any amount of
good intentions or good end.
Gandhiji struggled whole life against British
but he believed in Ahimsa (non violence) and never adopted the wrong means, infact
he withdrawn the non-cooperation movement after chauri-chaura incident. The
phrase means that even if the action was or seems wrong, the outcome or result
means it was not really wrong. The phrase strictly, applies to cases where the moral
outcome is truly superior to no action. Otherwise the end would not truly
justify the means. When the means include deception, lies, stolen ideas, slavery,
or by harming others in the process or knowing people may be harmed in the
future, the end result cannot be justified by the means.
If you run a foot race, you want to be the fastest runner so you will win. If you decide to trip two
runners or use performance enhancing drugs to make you faster than normal, it
is cheating if you win. The means by which you achieved your win were unethical
and immoral. Therefore, the end was not justified by the means because you won by
harming others and by deception. Hence, Above written phrase can be used either
to assert a truth, to argue an issue, or to dispute the truth of an argument.
To Illustrate-If you're a powerful politician who wants to
take over a country's Oil fields so your cronies and friends can get richer.You
invade the country under wrong accusations. Your army is more powerful, so you
quickly win the war and capture the ruler. Now you control the country's oil fields.
On the other hand, terrorists may be protected by a certain government. When
the terrorists attack your country, you strike back at the government that protects
them. In order to stop the terrorists, you must overthrow the government. E.g.
India's Surgical Strike On Pakistan.
In both cases, your country has invaded
another and overthrown its government. In the first case, your real agenda was
to obtain control of the country's petroleum deposits. The end is not justified,
so the means are not justified either. In the second case, your end was to
put a stop to terrorist attacks. Your means is invasion and overthrow of a sovereign
government. The end is justified, so the means are also justified.
In a constitutional democracy, and under
international law or international treaty, the whole notion of rule by law
means that in general, the ends do not justify the means. For example, it
is illegal to search without a warrant. So, if the end goal is to prove a criminal
guilty, the police are not allowed to use any means, they can’t go searching
anyone any time. Similarly, police cannot operate legally in foreign
countries. There is a extradition process for it. This implies, that in our kind
of government, the end generally does not justify the means.
In the light of the above argument, poorly
chosen means may result in the wrong end being achieved. For example-What If a
police arrested a wrong person and forced to confess. At the same time, You
can’t follow the right means to eliminate drug trafficking or most serious crimes in the world. In this way, Only iron cuts iron, Only a criminal can
eliminate a criminal, Only a brutal state eliminates terrorism.
However, one must avoid following evil means
for achieving noble ends as much as one can. The truth is, there is a movement
in life, and how smoothly or how happily this movement happens is far more
important than the end. Sometimes the movement causes pain and suffering; sometimes
it causes happiness. If Someone needs a
surgery it may be painful, but it will cure a disease. So there is movement,
and only the time-frame of the how the end is defined becomes relevant. In that
way, one may say that the end justifies the means. But, surgery without
anaesthesia. Probably, thats not a good idea as it brings pain and suffering.
Therefore, no “end” can ever justify the
means, because it is a movement all along. And, how happily we move along, is
perhaps far more important than any “end”, Hence, what appears to be an end at
one point of time, actually becomes a means at a later time for the next end.
Hence, if the end is good even if attained by bad means, it is still justified
because it then becomes a (good) means
for some other end.
Man can always aim
towards the goals. He cannot command it. He can command the means. Means is
within the control of the man. It is important for us to realize that there is
no end in real world because every end is a means to some other end. As Said
"Every End is A New Begining".
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