Deontological ... is an approach to ethics that focuses on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves, as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those
what makes the action itself wrong or right? are we talking if it breaks a rule/law or not? surely the (possibly precedential) concequencial outcomes of actions define if the action itself is right or wrong? or are we getting into the realms of ethical theism?
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Date: 2008-07-18 01:35 pm (UTC)what makes the action itself wrong or right? are we talking if it breaks a rule/law or not? surely the (possibly precedential) concequencial outcomes of actions define if the action itself is right or wrong? or are we getting into the realms of ethical theism?