Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Good and Bad boundaries

I was thinking about the notion of our moral actions transgressing boundaries and it occurred to me that it does so in a number of ways. Not only are certain actions morally contentious based on context, but we have overlapping degrees of desired good and bad. We typically do what is good for ourselves, we also try to keep in mind what may be good for someone else. Ideally we do what is good for our families or loved ones, which may conflict our abilities to do what is best for ourselves. It is clear that in a given circumstance depending on our setting that we desire a particular good in that moment, making the distinction of one objective good even more difficult to defend. The binary between good and bad becomes blurred as we realize that our actions may at the same time produce both an evil and benevolent consequence.

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