Ends and Means

A 2500 word essay that demonstrates via a passage from a novel that one must consider how one obtains a value and not just focus on the object itself. A "good" thing obtained in a "bad" manner is not good, at all. The ends never justify the means. Reason demands that we look at the whole context of a situation, the costs as well as the benefits, in evaluating any course of action we take to obtain an end.