If a society all agrees that a goal is important enough and the means are not bad enough then its OK


If a society agrees that a goal is important enough, and the means are not bad enough, then it is OK for the ends may justify the means.

Background, context, definitions, and assumptions:

Reasons to agree:

  1. You should seek societal approval any time you want to excuse your means to accomplish your means 
  2. War is just a big example of this.
  3. Laws limit personal freedom. They are bad, but societies feel it is OK to limit freedom in order to promote the common good. 
  4. This system examines both the ends and the means, but gives a higher weight to the means. It could even be formalized with math.

Ranking this conclusion by the ratio of reasons to agree vs. disagree (please add your reason to agree or disagree by commenting below, or commenting on my Google (blogger) blog)

 

 

We can use algebra to represent each term, and make it more formal mathematical, with the below formula and explanation of each term:

 

 

 

 

Conclusion Score:

n=1          

Number of Reasons to agree (A(1,i) = 9

Number of Reasons to disagree (D(1,j) = 2

n=1 Score =    (A/1*L-D/1*L)/(A+D) = (9/1*1-2/1*1)/(9+2) = 7/11 =+63%

Because I don't have the programming working yet, and using L is too complex without software with, I assume a linkage score of 1 for each argument.

 

n=2          

Number of Reasons to agree with reasons to agree (A(2,i)) - Number of Reasons to disagree with reasons to (D(2,j))

n=2 Score =    (A/2-D/2)/(A+D) = (34/2*1-0/2*1)/(34+0) = 17/34 = 50%

 

Score So Far: 63%+50% = 113%

 

Movies that agree:

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Movies that disagree:

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Interest of those who agree

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Interest of those who disagree

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Books that agree

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Web pages that agree

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Web pages that disagree

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