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There are many things which in themselves are morally neither good nor bad, but they are productive of consequences, which are strongly marked with one or other of these characters.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “There are many things which in themselves are morally neither good nor bad, but they are productive of consequences…”
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Paine discusses the moral ambiguity of actions that lead to significant consequences.
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