Every action aimed at solving a problem pertinent to society today is susceptible to its own pros and cons. Such actions call forth disagreement between individuals leading to debate and discourse as to whether they serve a greater good. The prompt claims that any action that results in more benefits than adversities is morally correct based on the reasoning that the results of an action are more important than the intent behind such action. In my opinion, I strongly disagree with the prompt and its reasoning, and argue that benefits are a subjective matter and as such what is viewed as benefits to one party may not appear so to their counterparts. In the end, what matters most is the intent of the individuals in carrying out actions that are not morally questionable.
A predominant problem viewed in urban India today is that of stray animals. Such animals often tend to be violent due to various reasons and resort to attacking pedestrians and children in a random, disoriented fashion. While such a problem is irrefutably a concerning one as it can lead to widespread infection or may result in incurable diseases such as rabies, culling of such animals to maintain a balance is often proposed as an attractive solution. Albeit a morally questionable solution, this aims to be utterly beneficial to the society as such. However, animal rights activists strongly protest such a course of action as it leads to indiscriminate killing of animals. What is instead proposed as an alternative solution is to get all stray animals vaccinated to prevent any spread of diseases and identify individual animals in order to isolate and treat the particular stray which has become violent. The former proposal appears most beneficial at first because of the ease of carrying out the job. However, the second one seems to solve the problem more pragmatically keeping in mind that often such stray animals such as canines help in safeguarding a community from thefts and burglaries.
Morals are subjective to individuals and what appears sordid to one might appear morally good to another. As such, history is replete with examples how extremism based on one's perception of right and wrong has led to inhuman activities of ill-repute. Looking back at the Second World War and the associated holocaust of Jews, it may be asserted that people during that time believed that such indiscriminate killing is in their best interest. What followed was an epitome, cited even today of the notoriety of then German supreme, Adolf Hilter. The benefits of such killing was made known through long rhetorics to gather support of the indigenous people, convincing them that such action was justified.
Often, it may be so, that a certain course of action inevitably leads to a morally questionable solution. Economically turbulent times are marked by corporate lay-offs and downsizing. Such lay-offs, often to the dismay of its employees, serve to reduce expenditure of a particular organization in order to allow it to survive under duress. While morally not justified and doesn't reflect the efforts the employees had put in the growth of the organisation, such a course of action is not ill on its intent. Such companies hire back the employees once the economic problems are solved and help maintain the moral balance as such.
In conclusion, the claim made that any action is morally justified if the amount of good that results from it is greater than tha amount of bad that it entails is erroneous based on the reasoning that the results are more important than the motive. At times of duresss, often people have to resort to morally questionable course of action but more often, other alternatives should be explored to maintain a moralistic balance.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 198, Rule ID: WHETHER[6]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "as to"?
Suggestion: whether
...viduals leading to debate and discourse as to whether they serve a greater good. The prompt c...
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Line 7, column 373, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...duress. While morally not justified and doesnt reflect the efforts the employees had p...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, may, second, so, then, while, as to, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 91.0 58.6224719101 155% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3135.0 2235.4752809 140% => OK
No of words: 622.0 442.535393258 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04019292605 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.99398916966 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80584764173 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467845659164 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 994.5 704.065955056 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0175009372 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.4 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.88 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.2 5.21951772744 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.328987896443 0.243740707755 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0959789766104 0.0831039109588 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.14621237028 0.0758088955206 193% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.227337555506 0.150359130593 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.158979897471 0.0667264976115 238% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 159.0 100.480337079 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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