Actions are means to achieve ends or goals {means and ends} {ends and means} {means/ends}. Means can be ends. Good goals can use questionable means. Does end justify means?
Marginal acts, once allowed, can lead to bad acts, by small continual extensions {slippery slope argument}|.
People can have dishonesty, injustice, immodesty, or bad morals {moral turpitude}|.
Judgments {value judgment} can state how things should be, not how they are.
People have right to make decisions about themselves {autonomy, ethics}|.
If something is going to happen, it will happen, so people do not need to do anything {lazy sophism} to protect themselves.
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