2006-10-28 00:55:54 · 11 answers · asked by sotu 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Your governments that represent you seem to. War on so called terror, which in itself sounds dubious, seem to have the end defined, the means, well just human life. No real issues there then?
2006-10-28 04:09:34 · update #1
Quite the contrary. The end is is a mental construct about the future. I am not tempted to trade the magic of what is for the dream of what might be.
It is now. It has always been now. It will always be now. The carrot and the stick enslave. The joy of being frees.
2006-10-28 01:17:16 · answer #1 · answered by beast 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
All is well that ends well - the approach is fatal to human spirit, to mind and everything that we know life is made up of. It is applicable only when things are viewed from the end side of them.
This is only to be said when something desirable has been achieved by hook or by crook methods. Some would say that they have achieved something, I would ask - have they really? Or has anyone ever achieved anything for sure and forever? We can see that we achieve things in a way and then we can also see that lose the very things in more or less simmilar way. All beginnings and all ends are arbitrary in our understanding. A beginning is only a beginning for us when we become aware of something being so, and an end is the end of something when that thing goes out of our focus. In reality of all things nothing absolutely begins and nothings completely ends, things go on. They are like the intertwining of threads in a rope. They turn round to the other side and go out of our focus, but they go on just to reappear at some place further along the length of the rope.
What we have achieved today, by the use of means only justifiable by their end, we might lose tomorrow by the lingering effects of the very things that we did to bring to our door the sense of momentary victory. Things can come and things can go as they do what we are left with are realisations how we lost them and how we got them at the first place.
Life is but a journey that we travel not to seek the end of this journey but for the sake of journey itself. We are unable to imagine the ultimate termination to anything in life. Perpetuation is our only familiarity with life. We sense innately and deeply that life will continue even after we are not here in this material world. We live because we believe to be alive, and being alive means to us an existence timeless.
2006-10-28 02:23:50 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not when the end is announced so much well in advance !
It is about a helpless person struggling for the very survival, where the end justifies the means (driven to the wall, worse than the 'fight or flight situation' !), not for powerful bodies such as governments , countries etc !
2006-10-28 04:21:54 · answer #3 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The end is only worth the means if the means are sound and take into account all the pros and cons not just a shoot from the hip approach.......as a bully might do. So no I would not live like this and knowlingly hurt other people.
2006-10-28 06:35:43 · answer #4 · answered by eagledreams 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,I try to live by the saying,"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means".
2006-10-28 01:38:35 · answer #5 · answered by timelord1962 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutly not, i live, or try to, according to my own form of Virtue theory...its very good and does the trick.
2006-10-28 02:43:04 · answer #6 · answered by El Fuser 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no... because i also take into consideration the people around me with my decisions... because if i decide based solely on the goal and nothing more, i believe that although i will achieve my goals, it isn't truly worth it... that success comes with a heavy price isn't a good success, if you get what i mean...
2006-10-28 01:07:16 · answer #7 · answered by callistachan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I try to live according to 'do as you would be done by.' I just wish everybody else did too!
2006-10-28 07:07:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
not really - that makes me think that criminal activity that has an accidentally positive outcome would be ok - i don't agree with that. however i do believe that we sometimes have to 'be cruel to be kind' - i suppose it's a similar theory. xx
2006-10-28 02:36:52 · answer #9 · answered by mousie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No........ the means justifies the end
2006-10-28 01:16:07 · answer #10 · answered by Mike 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋