"Ends Justify Means" , Machiavielli said it as an important Role of policy!!! ... Do you agree the use of it?

Answer 1

there is one critical aspect to what you are saying.

if you are to cite machiavelli, you can only do so when you SUCCEED.

otherwise you are just another desperate person willing to do anything in order to get what YOU want.

to the winner goes the spoils.

to the loser - disgrace.

i've had enough of disgraced leaders of the usa...

Answer 2

Would I kill 1 person so 1000 can live? Yes I would. The ends justify the means in that instance. Why would I let 1000 people die just so that I don't have to kill anyone?

Killing too strong an example? Would you steal an ice cream cone from a child if you knew there was poison in it? I guess the sin of stealing is justified by saving a child's life.

The problem would be to use this policy as an excuse to do bad things. Sometimes it is difficult to find what the end result will be. So if it ended up I killed a person for no good reason, than the ends wouldn't justify the means.

So I would suggest this policy only to be used when the future outcome is known. Or at least a strong probability of that outcome.

Answer 3

Not always, but sometimes. You can't use Queensberry rules in a street fight. Today's terrorists, who certainly follow Machiavielli's dictum, cannot be fought with conventional standards of fairness, because they perceive it as weakness. It only encourages them to fight on. Sometimes we have to be as ruthless as our enemies, so yes, sometimes the ends do justify the means.