Reply #105: Saying that the ends justified the means doesn't change anything I wrote

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And the bit about what nurses want vs. what regulations require is interesting but not really central. Change the phrase from "the nurses didn't think she need another pill" to "regulations prohibited the nurses from giving her another pill," and everything else remains the same.

If we say that the ends justified the means, then that's fine, but it's still a rationalization, and it's still a pious fraud.


Again, I'd have done the same thing in that situation.