Any meaning worth discussing is rife with subtlety
"The eighth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that the morality of a means depends upon whether 1/
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"the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory. The same means employed with victory 2/
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"seemingly assured may be defined as immoral, whereas if it had been used in desperate circumstances to avert defeat, the 3/
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"question of Gandhi’s passive resistance would never have had a chance against a totalitarian state such as that of the Nazis 4/
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"It is dubious whether under those circumstances the idea of passive resistance would even have occurred to Gandhi" 5/5
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(Alinsky again)
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