If a goal is worthy then any means taken to attain it are justifiable

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If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it are justifiable.

Throughout our lives, we continuously set goals, either long-term or short-term, and strive to achieve them. Other than individuals, companies set goals to generate revenue and governments set goals to provide a safe environment for its citizens. However, the means taken to achieve these goals should be carefully evaluated. As far as I'm concerned, even if a goal is worthy, not all means taken to attain it are justifiable. The means should cause no harm to society, abide by the law and moral standards, and should not entail disproportionate costs.

Firstly, the means taken to achieve a goal should not cause great harm to society. One obvious example is terrorism, such as the Islamic State. In order to construct a religious order they deem as worthy, this zealous religious group deliberately conducted numerous car bomb attacks around the world while controlling parts of the Middle East through a cruel dictatorship. They certainly view their goals as worthy, yet they caused massive destruction to the world and inflicted many people, hence their actions are not regarded as justifiable.

Also, goals should also be achieved through abiding by laws and conforming to moral standards. Since laws and morals help maintain order in society, it is important that our actions don't transgress them. For example, generating revenue is obviously a worthy goal for companies. However, they must conform to environmental laws who prevent them from causing pollution. Also, they shouldn't engage in fraudulent behaviors that flout enterprise ethics such as false advertisement. If a company's success is a result of flouting laws and morals, their justifiability to operate in society will be undermined.

Finally, the means taken to attain goals should not entail disproportionate costs. Take the atomic bombing in Japan at the end of WW2 as an example. Though the goal is to end WW2 which is certainly worthy, this action engendered grave problems such as malformation of babies in the bombing site. People may argue that sometimes sacrifice must be made to achieve some difficult goals. Since this is true, we should do our best to weigh in all the factors and think of the measures that do not entail great costs to society.

In conclusion, the means taken to attain goals is not unqualified. Namely, these measures need to be harmless to society, follows moral standards and law, while not entailing great disproportionate costs.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, so, while, for example, in conclusion, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 58.6224719101 75% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2051.0 2235.4752809 92% => OK
No of words: 394.0 442.535393258 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20558375635 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90818757108 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530456852792 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 611.1 704.065955056 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.9856140028 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.2272727273 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9090909091 23.4991977007 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.63636363636 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
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: 0.230229060914 0.243740707755 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0837857339554 0.0831039109588 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117313606127 0.0758088955206 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137541030521 0.150359130593 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0552715537712 0.0667264976115 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.64 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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