[cmdrfred]

If the net effect was good then the action was good.

[chopin]

The ends justify the means? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[cmdrfred]

Platitudes like that are how intelligent people trick themselves out of doing what is necessary.

[shitgoose]

Crime and Punishment is a thick book, there must be a Reader's Digest version somewhere. Try it.

[HelloRipley]

The poster you are responding to is making a utilitarian moral argument. You are referencing a novel that explores the a common source of crime (poverty) and the chain of events that follows.

I don't see the connection. :-S

[shitgoose]

The novel that I am referencing explores the possibility of justifying the crime by good intentions. I think there is a bit of connection there.

(spoiler alert - this utilitarian moral argument didn't work too well for Rodion)

[awinter-py]

argument, meet counterexample