RE good and evil intentions and actions
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- Good and Evil intentions and actions.
- Good intentions and actions
- Christians believe that Jesus taught people to act with good intentions and to "treat others as they would like to be treated".
- Good intentions , Bad actions
- some people might act with good intentions but commit a bad actions such as crime , eg. stealing to feed their family.
- some people feel it is never OK to break the law or never OK to do certain actions because they have a duty to obey god and his commands
- others feel that such actions are not as bad because it is not loving to make people follow rules if there will be bad consequences
- Bad intentions and actions
- most people feel it is wrong for people to act with bad intentions an carry out bad actions
- Bad intentions , Good consequences
- someone might act with bad intentions , but actually produce consequences. They might act selfishly , but actually end up helping others.
- Many religious people might still think they acted badly.
- UTILITARIANS judge actions based on their consequences . They consider an action with bad intentions but good consequences a good action
- possible justifications for causing suffering
- causing suffering in self deffence
- causing one person suffering to save another
- causing suffering now to stop suffering happening later
- The golden rule
- "do to others as you would have them do to you"
- Good intentions and actions
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