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发表于 2009-8-21 00:05:10
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212 "If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it is justifiable."
The speaker asserts that goals can be achieved by any means only if it is valuable as worthwhile one. I concede possible reasons in some rare and extreme situation, by using any means to attain the goal which may influence the future of the whole world and human being. However, few possibility indicates the casual correlation between means and goal and it may appear to be partial.
Recall the movie " World War". In the film, the director depicts a world are facing one extreme hazardous situation that our world are inundated and doomed to disappear and human's safety are being challenged. Or recall the disaster in the film " The Day After Tomorrow". Among the films tainted with crisis endangering the whole human, we may feel to fight against by using possibly extreme methods. Even at the cost of great loss, it may be overshadowed by human's extinction or the perilous Earth. Although these appear to be imaginary works based on fake stories, it can still verify some reasonability to use some extreme methods supported by the speaker.
Yet, under most of circumstances, these situations may hardly appear. Human cannot dispassionately imagine the danger essentially by using any means. For instance, on international level, war between two countries requires one side to pay costs to resist invader. But if such means by resisting invaders are the devastation to invading country's populace by using nuclear weapon, the importance and the aftermath will appear to be unbalanced. Or we may look no further example to our social development, especially in some developing countries. Industrialization is a valuable goal but every means to achieve are not necessarily acceptable. By cost of pollution to the nature or bringing health problems to citizen demonstrates the worthless of the goal. After all, in common sense, the overall health of citizen are much more important than the extent they are wealthy.
Furthermore, on a personal level, hardly can we orientate one goal of our lifetime is so important that every methods can be applied in order to achieve. For example, deception to other people or possible crime cannot be proved as a right approach to success despite it may help easily. Or we may look for academic success in the future, by the cost of personal health, happiness and sustainability is not advocated to be worthwhile. More importantly, personal well-being is much decided by the means we accept rather than the goal we may achieve.
In a common setting of social development or personal growing up, goals and means are more interdependent. Mutually, one acceptable means to achieve one goal is wise and one fair goal supported by adoptable means is rational. Dividing goal and means tarnish the excitement when we attain one goal and harm the reasonability of one means.
In sum, the speaker's assertion is too extreme to accept unless one world is facing great danger of extinction as the stories fear. In a common setting, goals instruct the means but means verify the goal. Both of the two sides are fairly interdependent and interconnected. Balancing goals and means strengthens the necessary procedure of achieving one goal and its approach. |
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