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the end justify the means
does the end result justify what you did to get there
for example: racial profiling
arresting people not for committing a crime but for being of a race that might commit said crime
you might get some criminals off the street but the majority of the people will be innocent
does the end result justify the means by which it was brought about
No, no, no. It's 'The end justifies the means.'
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mean3 /min/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[meen] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end: The telephone is a means of communication. There are several means of solving the problem.
2. means, a. available resources, esp. money: They lived beyond their means.
b. considerable financial resources; riches: a man of means.
3. something that is midway between two extremes; something intermediate: to seek a mean between cynicism and blind faith.
4. Mathematics. a. a quantity having a value intermediate between the values of other quantities; an average, esp. the arithmetic mean.
b. either the second or third term in a proportion of four terms.
5. Statistics. expected value. mathematical expectation (def. 2).
6. Logic. the middle term in a syllogism.
–adjective 7. occupying a middle position or an intermediate place, as in kind, quality, degree, or time: a mean speed; a mean course; the mean annual rainfall.
—Idioms8. by all means, a. (in emphasis) certainly: Go, by all means.
b. at any cost; without fail.
9. by any means, in any way; at all: We were not surprised at the news by any means.
10. by means of, with the help of; by the agency of; through: We crossed the stream by means of a log.
11. by no means, in no way; not at all: The prize is by no means certain.
I believe this is "The ends justify the means" meaning that the goal you are going for justifies how you are going about it.
It is "the end justifies the means" meaning that the benefit is so big that all means are justified to get it.
"The ends justify the means" means that it doesn't matter what you do, whether it be illegal, immoral, insensitive, whatever, just to accomplish something that will make it worthwhile. It doesn't matter what you do as long as you achieve your "ends" by any "means" that it takes.
You mean, "the end justifies the means".
Here is an example. You steal money from your employer to buy your grandmother her medicine. Stealing (the means or the way you got the money) is bad but what you took the money for (the end or reason for the theft) was a noble cause or reason.
Like Robin Hood...he took from the rich and gave to the poor, same thing. His end justified the means too, which is why he became adored and a folk hero in the stories.
Get it?
It could be a mistake as some have suggested, or it could be a deliberate play on words. "Odds and ends" means leftover bits and pieces. "Odds" also means chances, as in probability. So it could mean that the probability of success is high enough to justify the means.
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