yes

>>24735350
If someone intends to do harm but accidentally causes good, are they praiseworthy?

>>24735357
The moral fault in either in hiding behind intent or hiding behind cause is the same.

>>24735348
Yes, in the sense that being inept and ignorant is morally condemnable.

>>24735348
>If someone intends to do good
There is none that doeth good, nay, not one.

>>24735348
depends, there are a ton of contingencies bound up with that
for example, foreseeability and the definition of harm and the threshold at which harm is deemed to have occurred
let's say you're shaving and you end up with a superficial nick or two in your skin
this is reasonably foreseeable; indeed, probably expected, and the harm is both incidental and so minor that 'moral guilt' cannot reasonably apply, all the more so since it was done to oneself
there's also the natural related matter of tradeoffs, and the above can be viewed in such terms
also harm sufficiently downstream from an act or set of conditions cannot reasonably be ascribed to the act or prior conditions themselves in moral terms: someone being murdered with a gladius in the present day cannot sensibly be blamed on the prior existence of the Roman Empire
etc.

>>24735348
guilt is a legal concept not a moral or ontological one. it's meaningless to ask if someone is "guilty" of something outside the context of legal proceedings.

>>24735426
What the fuck are you on about

>>24735348
Deontologically no.
Consequentially yes.
Analytically unanswerable because the question is meaningless.

Moral indignation is envy with a halo and literally all questions of morality go back to the Golden Rule. I'm actually surprised people still bother with it in 2025.

>>24735897
You can be judged guilty by your social peers without the need for legal process.
And you can feel guilty and condemn yourself for the consequences of your action (as you should, for your retarded post.)

>>24737221
Nope. Any society has rules. Those who break them show a disregard for society.
Despite the profusion of edgelords posting on /lit/, humans remain social animals with a profound interest in social cohesion.

>>24735348
Whose morality are we comparing their actions to?

>>24738354
Mine.