MAINS 2018 · GS IV · ETHICS

What do each of the following quotations mean to you in the present context? (a) "The tru…

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2018 GS Paper IV Ethics

GS Paper IV 10 marks 150 words Ethics

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What do each of the following quotations mean to you in the present context?

(a) "The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject anything, is not whether it has any evil in it; but whether it has more evil than good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgement of the preponderance between them is continually demanded. "Abraham Lincoln

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