The chasm between ends and means is startling, but reassuring too.
"Because the ends, and I have no doubt that Garzon's ends were praiseworthy, the ends cannot justify the means and that is the basis of the rule of law, " she said.
So the argument between experts and activists goes on, not so much about ends as means, with public opinion moving to and fro.
It's a classic debate of whether the ends justify the means, and reasonable minds can certainly differ.
Weinberger's principles remind us that the situation in Syria is difficult for the United States because calibrating means and ends in the maelstrom is easier said than done.
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And when it came to means rather than ends, Bevan was entirely pragmatic about how provision should be funded and structured within the new NHS, consistent with its values of equality and fairness.
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Are we only interested in the means and consider the ends irrelevant?
Ask for evidence to support assertions, demanding that ideologies be sufficiently elaborated to separate rhetoric from reality-based conclusions, to independently determine whether specific means ever justify vague and harmful ends.
Do the ends justify the possibly suspect, potentially selfish and occasionally silly means?
The means have changed but the ends, values and principles remain the same.
Kantians stress individual rights and not using others as means to your ends.
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What this means is that whatever fines and damages BP et al ends up paying as a result of civil litigation, it could be on the hook for double that amount after a criminal trial.
He does more of the latter now, perhaps because the cadence of fly-fishing--the rhythmic casting and drifting of the fly--connects him to his blacksmith days and hammers home his main conviction: Means matter more than ends.
But, Washington held that these tools are bounded and should not be used according to unjust means or toward unjust ends, that when it is in our interest to pursue unjust tactics, justice must temper interest, bending and restraining it.
They discussed at length different modalities, different outcomes, different means to get to the ends that Ben already has described -- and with an open door.
Madh means a bushy moustache, posht is a moustache hanging down at the ends and fshes is a long broom-like moustache with bristly hairs.
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One of his great achievements since then, together with mathematician Roger Penrose, has been to prove that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity means space and time has a beginning in the "Big Bang" and ends in black holes.
Pre-cook it for at least two hours. (Fill a stockpot with water, add lemon juice, some salt and turn on the gas.) A savory, warming bowlful proves the sumptuous ends justify the malodorous means.
"So you have this amazing amount of pressure, funneling in to one or two health care bills a year, which means that any one bill, even if it should be noncontroversial, ends up becoming bigger and bigger and bigger, " he says.
Experimentation by definition means trying out things that may not have been tried, and possibly lead to dead-ends.
We all want more economic growth, but we ignore the means to get there: the onerous choices and commitments made along the roundabout path to those ends.
And this means that many homecare workers are forced to rely on things like food stamps just to make ends meet.
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It means doing something sufficiently silly that it ends up enraging your customers, costs you a lot of money and in general is entirely counter-productive.
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