RightToDoWrong

Quora Answer : Could it ever be right to do wrong?

Nov 17, 2011

No.

But I'm willing to view wrong actions done for a good cause as cases of diminished responsibility.

For example, it wasn't right to shoot the crazed guy with the knife who was attacking my family, but circumstances left me with few alternatives to save them. Hence, a wrong still occurred, but circumstance takes much of the responsibility for committing the wrong away from me.

I think this is a better solution than to say that circumstance changed the moral value of the act itself.