Ethics and Values / Unit 4 Ethics 151 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Consequentialism
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The idea
Consequentialism holds that the rightness of an action is determined entirely by the action's outcomes, and by nothing else about it.
In practice
Two drivers run the same red light; one sails through, one hits a cyclist. For consequentialism the difference between them is the whole story.
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