issue212--同主题第一期

235635736UID: 2404535

In the acutal world, we always struggle in making a perfect decision of pursuiting a goal and studying corresponding methodology. While some people believe that if a goal is worthy then any means taken to attain it is justifiable, this claim is of less feasibility and irrational.

With a considerate thinking of the word "worthy", the feasibility of a full exploration of whether a goal is worthy is low. The obvious fact is we can get different answers with logical reasoning in different circumstances. For example, we may consider a conduction is worthy to a personal level while undesire under the checking in collective level, such as enjoying music with a loud volume, playing video games on laptop in the classroom, and so on. To a practicality, we are always used to conclude the worthiness of an action with respect of interests of ourselves and others, as well as the evaluation of plans, speeches, and goals. Additionally, it is possibly that whether a goal is worthy cannot be assured until the outcome of practising this goal is clear. Without high feasibility, the definite of a worthy goal is an unworthy goal itself.

Moreover, the judgment of justifiability is also vague and differs in various situations. Importantly, the justifiability of means to the end is under a dilemma with respect of gaining and loss. Thereby, without a highly regulated morality, a person under the dilemma would choose a way in which his benefit protected and other's undermined. For an illustration, we could infer the Watergate scandal: Nixon may thought the ways he handled the information are justifiable to himself, while unjustifiable to the society and finally leading to his fail in the presidental career. Likewise to the word "worthy", the different opinions in the jutifiability of means taken to the end do result to the difficulty of choosing a right way.   

Another impracticality lies in the any means taken to attain a goal. Aforementioned example has gived vivid illustration about the difficulty of making a balanced choice between various considerations of behalf, let alone the free access to any means for the desired objective. In a societal level, making a right and balanced policy is always involved in too many choices and too much relation with different people, groups, and so forth, which always leave a low possibility to perfect decision.

However, while a perfect mean to a goal is rare, we still should conduct practice of ideas, on which our society advance based. Consequently, there are many methods for us to making a balanced choice with measuring gains and loss. And trials are necessary, for a consideration as a whole. There are many examples in the fields of science and engineering such as a basic procedure of experiment always including the pilot trial, innumberable modification of a blueprint, withdrawing of plan for unexpected tendency, and so on. In spite of these failures, working for a worth goal is of high value and the problem is searching for a best mean.

To sum up, whether a goal is worthy and whether a mean is justifiable are based on a difficult judgment, and of less feasibility.  Even if the worthiness and justifiability has been desided, it is irrational to take any mean for the end. With consideration to the dilemma in evalution of these qualities of goals and means, what has been left for we can only do is to search for a balanced way.