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Issue 212. If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it is justifiable

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Facing so many choices in the means taken to attain our goals everyday, we have to reflect on the issue whether it is acceptable to try any means only if the goal is worthy. I think this statement
misses the point entirely and lead to some people going to the extreme. In fact, whether certain means are justifiable in persuing a goal must be determined on a case-by-case basis, with regard of many other factors say ethics, costs or harm.

There is no denying that in order to reach personal goals, people will naturally try their best to adopt all the feasible means as possible as they can. A salesman develops his first business after tens of failures; a painter draws hundreds of paintings before being appreciated; a scientist experiences thousands of experiments to reach success. However, when your mind is overloaded of the goals, the goals themshelves will be farther and you will have gone to the extreme. Some men devote all time to their business and omit the essential conern. In the end their family break up and lovers depart when they become rich, reaching their goals. They forget that their original goal to struggle is just to provide a better life to their children and wife.

In most cases, one will probably face the conflicts between ethics and means taken to achieve his goal. Consider the goal of obtaining basic food for one’s survival. Regardless of means that may be used, no one can deny that the goal is highly worthy. But what if those means involve stealing from others? It happens to be a question which twisted poor Dean Valjean from Les Miserables of Victor Hugo. Dean Valjean chose to steal from others in order to survive from starvation and in the end he was convicted for stealing a loaf of bread. And even if he became a force for good in the world after many years, he still couldn’t escape his dark past. So, obviously, our means to be taken have to confront public morals. Different from other animals which complete for food and shetlers fiercely and bloody, human beings are expected to solve problems based on own conscience, value system, and notions of fairness and equity.

And sometimes confined by one’s own knowledge, the best means he chooses can also be inappropriate. Some solutions perhaps give rise to new problems that people fail to anticipate in advance, such as the fueled debate of human cloning nowadays. Some people try to appeal to cloning their deceased loved ones to recover from the great pain of losing them. Useful as the means seems, it is widely considered to be not morally and ethically right to clone humans. Even though technology is constantly advancing, it is not reasonable to believe that human cloning is morally and ethically correct, due to the killing of human embryos, the unsafe process of cloning, and the resulting consequences of having deformed clones. What’s more, possible abuse of this technology is also upsetting people. For example, how about cloning another Hilter by some Nazi?

In sum, if a goal is worthy, we should take efforts to persue it. But the means taken ought to be weighed by ethics, possible harm and we should avoid being dominated by it.

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