All day in the one chair/
From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged/
In rambling talk with an image of air:/
Vague memories, nothing but memories.
(Yeats)
Thursday, August 28, 2008
And I wonder...
Sometimes I wonder...
What's correct? Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons or doing the wrong thing for the right reasons?
Does the end really justify the means?
Any ideas..?
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Depends. But why should someone limit to only such thoughts? You can always do right for the 'right' thing. And at the end of the day - you will always feel good/bad for your +ve/-ve deeds!
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
2 comments:
Depends. But why should someone limit to only such thoughts? You can always do right for the 'right' thing. And at the end of the day - you will always feel good/bad for your +ve/-ve deeds!
How about doing the right thing for the right reason?
The other question about end justifying the means, it really depends on a case to case basis.
Just a little food for thought.
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
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