What dose it mean when they say "ends justify the means" ?
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It means the result justifies the actions taken to achieve that result.
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I THINK it means go to the middle.  In other words, be a moderate and not a leftist or rightest.  Extremes are never good in politics.\n\nI would have this verified by other posts.\n\nIt can also mean get to the center of an issue.  It depends upon the content of your question.
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Machievelli made that quote famous. People would like to think that it does, thus when Robin Hood robbed to give to the poor, his actions justified itself because of the good it did, especially considering that he was robbing from the rich, and the Sherrif of Nottingham's riches were ill-gotten anyhow.\n\nWe can conider another case. Say there is a person who is terminally ill and only has a month to live, and there are 6 people who need urgent organ transplants. Is it justified to kill the terminally ill man without his consent in order to harvest his organs to save the 6 people? Most would argue that it wouldn't.\n\nI think it is very tempting to argue that the ends do justify the means, but it is a very dangerous philosophy to follow, and it is best to live in accordance with the law.
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You're thinking that "end" means "finish" -- the opposite of start. It sometimes does, but not always. Something linear, like a ruler or a piece of rope, has two ends. When we say "weekend," we're thinking of the week in a linear way, with a day at each end.
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Its happening all ready. The Minutemen are one example.\n\nAnd to some of you others. \n\n Immigrant in its most "reasonable" meaning is someone who has moved to a different country.  You can pick on the word all you want but most reasonable people in the whole wide world accepts the meaning. If you were born here and live here your not an immigrant.  Only the unreasonable would try to pick at it (usually for a hidden agenda). Even books use the reasonable meaning just about all the time.
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nope, it's not the end; but u had to understand this " way of thinking "\nfor example, u r reading astonishing book and some one seize it from u what u 'll say? thank u, or try to get it by any way that u can.\nthat's it  someone steal ur land and allege this for democracy propagation and kill the people, destroy the green for democracy propagation \nbefore killing this " way of thinking " first kill the imperialism attitude\nwhy we call whose defend their lands,liberty ? terrorists!!!!\nsorry about my poor english
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the end is supposed to remain a mystery, because if you translated it, the meaning would be "lost in translation" \n\nlike how we have phrases in english that people who speak spanish would not understand, like saying "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree"
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In Oz we use that to mean something similar to, "I'm going to kill them." Not literal killing of course.  Just that you are going to get seriously angry with them.
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The ∞ mean infinity.  So, it goes from -infinity to 8, not including 8 itself.  And the other one goes from 5 to infinity, including 5.\n\nThe [ ] means that you include that end point, whereas ( ) means you don't include that point.
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not prove - but offer a rationale. Same with statistics. Like Humpty Dumpty said i nWonderland " I pay the words, so they mean whatever I want them to mean."
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When they say the "quote" part it means that they are about to quote exactly what someone says. When they say "unquote" it means that hey are finished with the quote.
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The meaning behind it is the context in which it is used. Black people say it with an "a" at the end. Basically claiming that it is something they turned into a term of endearment within the black community. \nThe n word does not mean that a black person was going to be raped, killed, or anything else. It means ignorant. Look it up in the dictionary. \nPersonally, I don't think anyone should say it, regardless to what color they are or what context they use it in.
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enim omnis initium illic iacio a finis, enim omnis finis illic iacio a initium. thats the closest i can do and it means for all beginnings there lies an end, for all ends there lies a beginning
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It's slang, actually.\n\n"Go away, dude! I'm with someone else. Go die far.  Now, we go our separate ways."\nIt's not a literal translation, I tried to keep the sense and the meaning. Basically, this person is  ending a relationship with someone who keeps insisting.
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It means giving up control of the person - on purpose because you meant to and letting the other person say what will happen to the person.  You're out of it and you want to be and they want you to be.
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To me the saying is about empathy. If you were to percive suffering from anothers perspective, you would be discouraged from making that person suffer.\nBut then does that mean that we are all selfish creatures, only not doing bad for fear that we might one day be on the recieving end? I don't think so; I genuiely think we are onditioned aginst causing others pain. Of course there are exceptions to this.\nThe biggest problem facing the idea today is the fact that we are encouraged to divide into "them" and "us". People who do not share the same country/race/religion as us are portrayed as less human and therfore less deserving of this empathy. With these people we are encouraged not to care about their well being.\n\nPerhaps the phrase should be "Treat ALL others.."\n\nSorry I couldnt think of an example ;)
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It means you can't undo your wrongs by doing another one again. The last line is used for making the funny concept about the matter.