Assertion: morality's nothing | /r/CapableOf | do with the morality of an action
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text: Critics sometimes claim that, for utilitarianism, motive seems to have nothing to do with the morality of an action.
text: It is the business of ethics to tell us what are our duties, or by what test we may know them; but no system of ethics requires that the sole motive of all we do shall be a feeling of duty; on the contrary, ninety-nine hundredths of all our actions are done from other motives, and rightly so...the motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action...the great majority of good actions are intended not for the benefit of the world, but for that of individuals, of which the good of the world is made up.
text: Critics sometimes claim that, for utilitarianism, motive seems to have nothing to do with the morality of an action.
text: Mill makes a similar point and explicitly says that "motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action, though much with the worth of the agent.