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 inte

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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 suggests that for an action to be morally correct, the amount of good that results from the action should be greater than the bad. In my opinion, I strongly disagree with the claim and especially the reason as well as for an additional reason. However, there are instances where this claim does holds water.

First of all, actions should be judged by intentions and not the results of the action. There are instances where an action done with a good intention may not produce desired results and this does not mean the person carrying out the action is morally corrupt. For instance, a person may be working on the road and may see a sharp metal object along the road while walking. The person may decide to throw the sharp object to a nearby bush to prevent it from harming someone. Unfortunately, an hunter may enter the bush and this sharp may harm the hunter. This example shows that even though the outcome of the action was in the long run negative the intention of the person that performed the action was pure and does not mean the person lacks morals.

Secondly, using the results of an action to judge the action is not a good metric of measurement because while carryiong out the action there may be unforseen circumstances which hinders getting desired positive results from the action. For instance, the boss of a company may decide to reward his or her workers with gifts and bonuses. However, when the manager discusses this with the company's accountant, the manager may be told that the company does not have enough resources for gifts and bonuses. This shows that even though the desired outcome was not achieved due to some reasons, the action not producing good results does not mean the action is not morally correct.

Of course, some may argue that for an action to be morally correct, the amount of good from the action should be greater than the bad. For instance, to known if a leader does not lack morals, the leader is judged from the amount of good he or she does for the people. Hence, if the leaders actions produce bad results then the leader is morally corrupt. What if these actions are not willingly done by the leader? What if the leader had good intentions but was pushed to carry out this action by surbodinates?. Hence actions should be judged by intention.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 491, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...it from harming someone. Unfortunately, an hunter may enter the bush and this shar...
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Line 7, column 512, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...carry out this action by surbodinates?. Hence actions should be judged by intention.
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, while, as for, for instance, of course, as well as, first of all, in my opinion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 58.6224719101 70% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1905.0 2235.4752809 85% => OK
No of words: 409.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.65770171149 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30101019723 2.79657885939 82% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 215.323595506 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.39608801956 0.4932671777 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 573.3 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.038398658 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.263157895 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5263157895 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.89473684211 5.21951772744 151% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.490612614211 0.243740707755 201% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.187064529289 0.0831039109588 225% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.175598495826 0.0758088955206 232% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.369074624876 0.150359130593 245% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.074382154027 0.0667264976115 111% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.1392134831 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.8420337079 137% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 12.1639044944 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.19 8.38706741573 86% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 100.480337079 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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