Cause and Doing

Cause

Cause verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

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Doing and cause are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Doing" with "Cause", this verbs are similar.

Nearby Words: caused, causation, causeless, causative, causal

Doing noun - Something done by someone.

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Cause and doing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a verb "Doing".

Nearby Word: do

human	human cause	human doing
good	good cause	good doing
common	common cause	common doing
noble	noble cause	noble doing
Other adjectives: true, due, real, big, serious, evil, bad, main, moral, righteous, biggest.

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.

Source: The Unfettered
So a robot can't decide it would rather live over humans, and if it knows that doing an action would cause harm to a human, it can't harm it, even if ordered to ignore the harm it would cause.

Source: Zeroth Law Rebellion
Rather than causing an explosion, however, doing so will instead just cause a fire.

Source: Made of Explodium

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