Ends and Means

Egypt pyramids & a drawing showing egyptian slaves

Does the end justify the means?

Thousands of Slaves under ruthless slavery built the Pyramids. But nobody complains about the end product. But the means, is it justifiable? Can that feat be achieved by any other means? Maybe not. But does it justify the oppression the builders were subjected to in building the pyramids?

And more importantly how many of us care to remember the means by which the feat was achieved when we look in awe at one of the wonders of the world. So, if we tend to conveniently forget very wrong means in which it is achieved, does it mean it justify the means?

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Hiroshima Bomb and bones of some who died by atomic blast

In more recent history, in August of 1945, United States dropped nuclear Atomic bombs on cities Hiroshima nadn Nagasaki of Japan ending a almost 6 year old World War, World War II. The bomb killed more than quarter of million people and the nuclear radiation deformed and gave thousands cancer and disabilities for many years after post-attact. Yet, it ended the long war. So, does the end justify the means? 

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So, in the end, if end justifies the means, does it mean if intention is good, it is okay to use any means to achieve that which we intended? But then rises another question. What if, wrong means are used and the "beautiful intention" we intended never ets achieved?

What if the slaves were oppressed, whipped, tortured and forced and still the Pyramids bricks kept falling ,never finishing the World wonder. What would we have said, if the atomic bombs were dropped and thousands killed and somehow the World War II never ended?

Surely, vision of a beautiful end doesn't give one right to use wrong means to achieve it. But does it means, the end doesnt justify the means, or does it?