Does the goal justify the means? Many people have tried to answer this question, organizing another “who is the stupidest” contest. And while they focus their attention on hard and complicated discussions about what’s moral, the answer is obvious – no, because it’s beneath it.

The goal will never waste its time justifying anything. It is the end of the road but also the reason why that road exists in the first place. There is no process in the Universe without a purpose. The goal is absolute. The desire is the engine. Possibilities are the reality. What doesn’t have a goal, has no purpose and it’s just a vision.

The only paradox is human society, but its existence is an illusion that’s doomed to fail. In the well-known whirlpool of stupidity and twisted weakness, the idea that you can have whatever goals you like as long as you don’t do anything to achieve them has appeared.

Everyone needs to pretend that he has goals so he doesn’t shoot himself in the head. The rest have no problem with that. Their only requirement is that he never tries to accomplish them. The man who goes after what he wants is an obstacle. He is strong and he knows where he is going. His desires are a threat to the calm boring crawling of those around him and that is completely unacceptable. And things get even more horrifying when it turns out that the individual cannot be stopped and he will follow his wishes at any price. Then society brings out its secret weapon.

To never follow your dreams is the most moral thing you can do, but if you fail at that noble task the least you can do is to go after a goal that’s considered to be “good”. According to this theory, if you rob a shop to give the money to an orphanage, the goal is “good”, ergo there is a chance the action would be justified. But if you rob the bank with the best security system so that you can test the abilities of your brain, the goal is “bad” and there is no excuse for it. If you kill a terrorist that’s about to blow up someone, the goal is “good” and everything is ok. But if you kill the woman in the blue dress, because the sunrise told you so, the goal is “bad”. If you build a hospital in a third world country because you really care about the fate of those people or just because you want to improve your reputation…well, who cares about the reasons. The important thing is that the goal is “good”.

The goal and the means are one. Great goals demand great means. If you want to write a genius novel you will look for the words for it only in your soul. If you want to write a mediocre bestseller you will copy the thoughts of the ordinary man, dressed in talentlessness. If you want to be the best businessman you will fight for the first place with honor and dignity. If you just want money you will crawl like a sleazeball to the top, kissing the asses of those who are above you and stamp down those under you. If you want to win the heart of the woman you love, you will show her your true nature with one look. If you want to be with her because you are afraid of loneliness, you will become the lowest liar to make her stay with you.

Almost any goal can be achieved in many ways but every person must decide which one is right for him. If you want to go from point A to point B you could go by foot, by train or invent the teleporting machine. In rare cases, the same means can be used for achieving different goals. You can cause pain to someone because you want to destroy him or because you want to help him along the way to the overman.

The goal and the means are an indivisible whole where there is no place for excuses. And our ability to defy it is what makes us individuals.