I’m not sure it would count as “immoral”, guess it also depends of how you define the terms.
I see this as a case of the more general “does the end justify the means?”. In principle, the end do justify the means, if you’re sufficiently confident that those means will indeed result in that end, and that the end is really valuable. In practice, the human brain is biased towards finding ends to justify means that just happen to bring power or prestige to the human in question. In fact, most people doing anything widely considered “bad” can come up with a good story about how it’s kinda justified.
So, part of what makes a human moral is willingness to correct this, to listen to the voice of doubt, or at least to consider that one may be wrong, especially when taking action that might harm others.
I’m not sure it would count as “immoral”, guess it also depends of how you define the terms.
I see this as a case of the more general “does the end justify the means?”. In principle, the end do justify the means, if you’re sufficiently confident that those means will indeed result in that end, and that the end is really valuable. In practice, the human brain is biased towards finding ends to justify means that just happen to bring power or prestige to the human in question. In fact, most people doing anything widely considered “bad” can come up with a good story about how it’s kinda justified.
So, part of what makes a human moral is willingness to correct this, to listen to the voice of doubt, or at least to consider that one may be wrong, especially when taking action that might harm others.