One of my most prized possessions is a transcript of some of my late grandfather’s notes. Among them, and most prized to me, is an note he wrote about the fruit of wicked trees: that the ends do not justify the means; the means and ends are both the merit of a thing, and if either is corrupt, so too is the thing.
I keep a printout of it with me often as a memorandum.
No. The ethics of how something is produced are material.
The ends don’t justify the means.
One of my most prized possessions is a transcript of some of my late grandfather’s notes. Among them, and most prized to me, is an note he wrote about the fruit of wicked trees: that the ends do not justify the means; the means and ends are both the merit of a thing, and if either is corrupt, so too is the thing.
I keep a printout of it with me often as a memorandum.