Claim: An action is morally correct if the amount of good that results from the action is greater than the amount of bad that results from the action.
Reason: When assessing the morality of an action, the results of the action are more important than the intent of the person or people performing the action.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim AND the reason on which that claim is based.
The claim reported suggests that an action should be considered moral if the benefits deriving from it overweight its drawback. The evidence on which this thesis relies is that, generally speaking, the results of an action are much more important than the action itself. As far as I am concerned, I tend to mostly disagree with the statement since the morality is a too wide concept to be reduced only on the effects of our behavior.
First, it is not always true to affirm that if the results of an action are positive for someone, so the action should be positive as well. Suppose, for instance, that someone decide to go against the law in order to help one of his closest friend without damaging anybody. Of coursethe benefits of what he has done will be greater than the bad result , but this reason is clearly not enough to start considering it a moral action. In fact, a more complex reasoning should be done, involving not only the effect that the single action have on the environmentin which it has been done but also the effects that this action would have if every member of this environment would do that. All this is to say that it is almost impossible to judge the morality of an action just by looking at its direct effects, and , thus, a wider view is obviously needed.
In addition, the results of an actions are not the ones to be praised when talking about morality. That happens mainly for two reasons. On one side, sometimes people do action with positive results for chance. For example, if someone's intentions are bad and than because of the situation he is influenced to do an action with positive results, it should not be praised as a moral one. On the opposite side, people who have positive intentionssometimes lack the courage needed to put it into action. However their positive moral attitude will emerg sooner or later and, meanwhile, their moral thoughs can have benefits on others. For these reasons, the morality involves more the intention of people than what they put into actions, since the former lasts longer than the ladder and it is what can really make the difference in society.
In conclusion, the concept of morality should be consider in a wider way and should not involve only the consequences brought by practical action. On one side of the argument, many actions with positive results are anything but moral and, for this reason, they should not be praised just for their temporary benefits. On the other side, the moral actions are the ones that affect the general attitude of a society and, for this reason, the real results can be seen just after a lot of time.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...done will be greater than the bad result , but this reason is clearly not enough t...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...st by looking at its direct effects, and , thus, a wider view is obviously needed....
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Line 5, column 29, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'an action' or simply 'actions'?
Suggestion: an action; actions
... needed. In addition, the results of an actions are not the ones to be praised when tal...
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Line 5, column 259, Rule ID: AND_THAN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'then'?
Suggestion: then
...ple, if someones intentions are bad and than because of the situation he is influenc...
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Line 5, column 500, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...e courage needed to put it into action. However their positive moral attitude will emer...
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Line 7, column 50, Rule ID: SHOULD_BE_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'considered'?
Suggestion: considered
...sion, the concept of morality should be consider in a wider way and should not involve o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, really, so, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, of course, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2162.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 461.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.68980477223 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49673597035 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472885032538 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 693.0 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.6217045305 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.111111111 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6111111111 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.66666666667 5.21951772744 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.423027544092 0.243740707755 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161466528738 0.0831039109588 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104075398558 0.0758088955206 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.303892347466 0.150359130593 202% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0548906747307 0.0667264976115 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.22 12.1639044944 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.