Edited sentence: In an evaluative capacity, therefore, "good" and "bad" carry moral weight without committing a category error.It follows that if we want scissors to be good, we ought not make them like the aforementioned pair; if doctors or people in general want to be good, they ought to act in such ways, and make use of such things, that enable them to fulfill their telos.Just as a pair of scissors that cannot easily cut through paper can legitimately be called "bad" since it cannot discharge its function well, a doctor who cures a high percentage of his or her patients, or a person who acts in accordance with his or her particular culture's or community's vision of the human telos, can be called good, as can those things that help them facilitate their goal.The moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has attempted to show that because ethical language developed in the West in the context of a recognition of a human telos--an end or goal--our inherited moral language, including terms such as "good" and "bad," have functioned, and function, to evaluate the way in which certain behaviors facilitate the achievement of the telos