We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
The ends must justify the means.
I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.
Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.