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Originally Posted by Didymos Thomas  I think you have to ask 'good for who'? If a person does something good for someone else, but the agent's motivation was for ill, then the action was good for the other person and harmful to the agent.
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Good and bad are defined in terms of each other - without "bad" there is no "good". And good and bad in any given situation is different. We might highlight certain things which are usually harmful - bad intent, killing, that sort of thing. But good and bad is circumstantial. |
Yeah sure but can't a good motive make a bad action good? If you get what I'm saying..
And 'good for who' shouldn't mather should it? It's allways morally good to give money to the needy, although it might hurt your personal finances, because the action to give to the more needy is good and the intention of helping the more needy is also good...
Good Action + good motive = Good Deed...
Also a robbery where you steal money for your own gain is allways bad..
Bad action + bad motive = bad deed..
But:
Bad action + good motive = what?
Good action + bad motive = what?
Thus I said that good and bad is blurry, because this is hard to answer isn't it? I belive it is anyways although I will give you that my examples wheren't that good...