As a whole the concept of doing evil for the eventual greater good is a romantic one, however it is riddled with moral ambiguities and broad generalizations. Firstly, the question of how immoral actions can be justified initially with no evidence that any greater good will come of it in future. There is no reasonable way of predicting ‘the ends’ therefore they can never truly justify the means. When you have no way of predicting whether good or bad will come from your action you cannot be certain of anything in future other than the immorality of the present. An analogy would be the following: You have a dog who is very ill. If you know for certain that the dog will die then you can justify putting it down because you know you are only saving
