Yellow and blue will produce green. The means determine the end.
Wednesday, 1 August 2007
Means Determine Ends
If I mix yellow & blue I'm not going to get orange, no matter how much I wish it. With all but the crudest of ambitions, such as winning a football match, the idea of ends justifying means is inherently idiotic - a superstition where the will or intent is imagined to be sufficient to engender the desired future by some kind of magical two plus two equals five formula.
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