• Agent Smith
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    You rang?schopenhauer1

    :lol: Only to inform you how right you are! I hope you weren't in the middle of something important. I'd hate to be a nuisance monsieur! Au revoir fellow traveller! Our non-grandchildren will not sing of our brave exploits! :lol:
  • schopenhauer1
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    I hope you weren't in the middle of something important. I'd hate to be a nuisance monsieur!Agent Smith

    We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
    -Schopenhauer

    Our non-grandchildren will not sing of our brave exploits! :lol:Agent Smith

    This is true. Aggressive paternalism assumes life is good and necessary for someone else. It disregards suffering of another so that X goals are achieved. Indeed it is ends justifying means mentality and a deontological miscalculation.

    I’m rambling perhaps as I have no context for which I was called but the thread is about ends justifying the means so I’m going with that.
  • Agent Smith
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    I sympathize with yer overall weltanschauung mon ami! The ends justify the means! :snicker: :snicker:

    Captain Leland Stottelmeyer:
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    To hell with this! I'm outta here!
  • Xanatos
    98
    If getting the lamp isn't guaranteed, then I certainly wouldn't be willing to kill anyone.

    Really, the answer to the question as to whether the ends justify the means is "It depends".
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