Paul Crowley

For me, it wouldn't make sense to say that something was wrong even if there were no negative consequences. However, it is a practical impossibility to be aware of every consequence that will stem from an action in the short and long term (How long a term should we consider, after all? And how could we possibly know what the course of historty would have been if a certain thing had not happened?) Therefore, it is often useful to generalise that something is inherantly wrong because it has the tendancy to create highly negative consequences.