Even worthy actions can sometimes have unintended consequences.
Casey's fresh outlook is endorsed by worthy actions.
On Kant's account, the moral law and people who exemplify it in morally worthy actions elicit reverentia from us, for we experience the law or its exemplification as "something that always trumps our inclinations in determining our wills" (Feinberg 1975, 2).
If the United States backs down in the face of these challenges, the missile strike, though a worthy action in itself, may end up reinforcing the world's impression that the United States does not have the stomach for confrontation.
They must also be infused with the appropriate emotions, sentiments, and feelings to perform an entirely morally worthy action (Blum, Friendship, Altruism, and Morality, 1980).
Now is the time, like never before, to hitch up our Big Girl and Big Boy pants and step forward, taking responsibility for leadership and love and progress for all... for deep values and worthy action... starting with ourselves and taking the example forward from there.
What is the motive of a morally worthy action?
The effort required for the agent to perform the kind of morally desirable action that she in fact performed (henceforth, 'Effort Required') negatively influences moral worth, in the sense that, at least over some range, increased Effort Required makes for less morally worthy action.
Again, the middle ground is our friend in terms of praise-worthy actions and efforts.
Sorensen does not consider actions of this sort—he seems to assume that they are not possible but I suspect that if he did, he would, contrary to his model, not judge them to be the worthiest actions.
I think one judgment-worthy action may be what you and I do about the militarization of Jeju Island, South Korea, in service of the arms race.
