DUE WED 3/21 Republic Assignment

Write your reaction to the following statement: Whether or not an action is right or wrong is less important than wheter or not it benefits the interests of the agent.

I think that this is morally wrong. An honest person with some kind of moral center would never put himself before deciding whether an action is right or wrong. an honest man would always consider his actions, choose his words carefully, and in the end, make others and himself happy. So really, this statement is directly linked to a person's happiness and ability to stay within what is right by the standards of the law of their governing body. Some might say that the governing body is the agent in many cases, but a government who actually cares about its people would always put itself and its own prosperity after that of their people. There has never been a government truly like this, and that is why we have war, pain, and suffering being caused by many governments around the world. That includes ours.