"No well-ordered republic should ever cancel the crimes of its citizens by their merits; but, having established reward for good actions and penalties for evil ones, and having rewarded a citizen for good conduct who afterwards commits a wrong, it should chastise him for that wrong without regard to his previous merits.
By Richard Harris The New Yorker, October 1, 1973 P. 29 "No well-ordered republic should ever cancel the crimes of its citizens by their merits; but, having established reward for good actions and penalties for evil ones, and having rewarded a citizen for good conduct who afterwards commits a wrong, it should chastise him for that wrong without regard to his previous merits.
— The way Steve Davis sees it, arranging collectible cars for display at auction is like writing the script for a good action movie: "You've got to have a beginning that gets you excited, a middle that grips you and an end that delivers".
The blood exams need to differentiate the types of osteoporosis, to value the bone markers and vitamin D. I remember that the vitamin D level is important for the calcium, the bone and the muscle metabolism and for the good action of the drugs of osteoporosis.
It's the classic recipe for a good action movie.
And a conscious choice is precisely what is required for a (good) action to be considered moral, a good instinct or good inclinations may make us good, may even be desirable, but by itself this is not enough to make us moral.
For a good action film you need a solid structure.
Muslims believe that Ramadan is a blessed month and the rewards for any good action is multiplied, so much of the annual obligatory and optional charity giving happens in Ramadan.
Hume claims that there needs to be a natural (non-moral) motive for morally good actions, for otherwise they could only be done because they are morally good; and that would be circular, since our judgment of acts as morally good reflects our approval of the motives and traits that give rise to the acts in question (T 479, 483).
Last but not least, take the time to set a good action for the day--one for yourself, one for your community, and one for your own business.
