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Re:How to (In)validate Your Startup Idea by gintas on Saturday December 18, 2010 @07:19AM (#2019381)
> Morality is ultimately about results.

Or it's not. See deontological vs. consequentialist conceptions of morality.

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Re:How to (In)validate Your Startup Idea by JesseAldridge on Saturday December 18, 2010 @09:11AM (#2019515)
"Nothing in the world—indeed nothing even beyond the world—can possibly be conceived which could be called good without qualification except a good will."

And if you have a good will then you seek good results, so both philosphies end up in the same place, right?

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Re:How to (In)validate Your Startup Idea by philwelch on Saturday December 18, 2010 @12:46PM (#2019821)
No, not really. The question can be summed up as "do the ends justify the means?".
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