Sentence examples for has good consequences from inspiring English sources
We can grant that their arguments establish that bie, or excluding others from all concern, is morally wrong, and that inclusive care has good consequences and is thus benevolent and permissible.
We might protest that an act can surely be good if it has good consequences: it is 'instrumentally good', that is, good as a means (though not good as an instrument; the term 'instrumental value' is a snare).
For example, a consequentialist view that polygamy is right in one society and wrong in another because it has good consequences in the first society and bad consequences in the second would not be a mixed position because the judgments "Polygamy is right in circumstances A" and "Polygamy is wrong in circumstances B" could both be true in an absolute sense.
But it is a good thing to have led a life which has had good consequences".
Meanwhile, the deontological perspective asserts that certain actions – like killing an innocent person – are just wrong, even if they have good consequences.
"I've come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences," Mr. Seeger said.
One such criticism is that, although the widespread practice of lying and stealing would have bad consequences, resulting in a loss of trustworthiness and security, it is not certain that an occasional lie to avoid embarrassment or an occasional theft from a rich person would not have good consequences and thus be permissible or even required by utilitarianism.
That is a lesson the latter will have to learn next time.Amid the crisis of 2008, it is easy to forget that liberalisation had good consequences as well: by making it easier for households and businesses to get credit, deregulation contributed to economic growth.
