1/21/21: The Good Place: C_LO7

 This blog about considering the ethics of choices and actions is going to be deep. Recently I just had a philosophy J-Term class that went into many things one of them being moral ethics. We also got to watch some episodes from the Good Place. Which I have seen before because it was one of my favorite shows but then we had a seminar to go super duper in depth into the different moral philosophical things that were brought up in the show. One thing that really stood out to me was how one of the articles we read about the show was how people who make a choice or commit an action with good intentions but a bad result doesn't mean that they are bad people. It was the doctrine of double effect that the result and the intention should be judged on different scales. So that if the consequences were bad it shouldn't be blamed on the person who had good intentions. Now that doesn't mean everything you do with bad consequences is your fault because you should think about the consequences before doing something, but if you make an impulse decision or not think of all the consequences but you had a good intention you shouldn't be judged. And that made me think of how sometimes the things that my brother does doesn't turn out the best but he tries and has a good heart and intentions. It also made me think of how I should think about people and their choices. Many people are judged on the result of their actions or decisions but they should really be judged on their intentions. Yes if it goes horribly then they should take responsibility but it doesn't automatically make them a horrible person. Although this isn't really considering the ethics of a specific decision, this experience helped me learn to better judge the morality and ethics behind my future decisions and others.