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gtremper
on July 24, 2015
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Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.4M cars after Jeep hack
The "ends justifying the means" is not a fallacy, unless you think Consequentialism is completely wrong[1]. In this case, it seems a lot of people
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think the ends justify the means. In other words, the risk was morally justified given the results.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism
MBCook
on July 24, 2015
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I don't think it its a good argument in this cases since they had much safer options.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism