The end justifies the means

“The end justifies the means“.

Although this phrase is attributed to Niccolò Machiavelliit is said that he wrote it Napoleon Bonaparte on the last page of your copy of book “The Prince”whose author is precisely Nicolás Machiavelli.

The most relevant themes in the work of Machiavelli are those of the war; since he addressed this problem particularly in several of his books.

Even without granting him the authorship of the phrase “the end justifies the means” In his writings, without specifically accepting that the end justifies the means, he did express that the warregardless of the causes that caused it, was justified as a way of living for societies with a certain degree of civilization.

But definitely the end will never justify the means.

In this electoral contestthe violence It can never be justified; the elections They are an exercise in democracy typical of a cultured, tolerant and inclusive society.

It can never be valid for an illicit means to be used to achieve a lawful end; nothing justifies illicit means, no matter how sublime the end pursued may be.

In a truly cultured society, the application of force disappears from its lexicon and daily practice.

The law of the strongest does not apply in a society that prides itself on being progressive and democratic, no matter how much it wants to justify itself with the argument of being “politically correct.”

For a dignified and united Mexico, let us make a pact to eradicate from our culture the mistaken idea that the application of the law of the strongest can be justified.

Neither the law of the strongest, nor the idea that the end justifies the means, can be valid in a culture like ours that is struggling to reach First Worldism.

Thank you so much.

Los Mochis, Sin. June 7, 2024.

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Doctor in Human Development, Civil Engineer and Graduate in Education, as well as a specialist in Neurolinguistic Programming, primary education teacher, among other things. 56 years of active service as a teacher, of which 27 years as a public servant and three more as founding rector of the first Polytechnic University of the Northwest of the Republic, located in Mazatlán Sin. He is currently Supervisor of Higher Education in the North of the entity, but without ever leaving his teaching activity, although today he only exercises it in postgraduate studies at the Nexum University of Mexico.

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