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To: TimF who wrote (6226)	5/20/2003 11:21:37 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

Actions lead to all sorts of consequences which may be judged "good" or "not good". But we do not generally define "good" by a recourse to future sight. What would make you consider that something you are doing is both wrong, and yet good in its possible consequences? Do you mean that you feel competent to define good on the basis of an assumed future while still considering your actions to have intrinsic "badness"?? "If I was convinced to support the effort it would only be with the idea that I was doing something wrong to try to create a great practical good"" I can understand you being happy to find that something bad turned out to be good...but I don't understand how one determines such value judgments before the fact. How does one say: "I can see the future and this bad act will create good...therefore, I will do something that is not good??"