Drinking and driving

¡§The End Justify the Means¡¨

Every action has its consequences, sometimes desirable while other times undesirable. And all of our actions carried out are somehow meant to satisfy our needs or to fulfill our desires. Although, in this pursuit of achieving our goals, we do not want to harm other people but our actions are so blind, rather we are so blind that our actions see no morality. The ¡¥want to¡¦ we started with has already been changed into ¡¥have to¡¦. The phrase ¡¥the end justifies the means¡¦ connotate the meaning that what all that matters is the final result and not that how it was reached.
One thing which I would like to bring into readers attention is that, even though Machiavelli did believe in the philosophy of final result, but he never wrote that end justifies the means. His Italian original, si guarda al fine, has often been mistranslated as ¡§the end justifies the means¡¨.
Moreover to prove his point, he illustrates many historica...