So a person is doing something good if they are doing a morally right action. (Actually this is what they do in practice, but it isn't really the starting point of deontological thinking.) If we compare Deontologists with Consequentialists we can see that Consequentialists begin by considering what things are good, and identify 'right' actions as the ones that produce the maximum of those good things.ĭeontologists appear to do it the other way around they first consider what actions are 'right' and proceed from there. So, for example, the philosopher Kant thought that it would be wrong to tell a lie in order to save a friend from a murderer. People have a duty to do the right thing, even if it produces a bad result. Someone who follows Duty-based ethics should do the right thing, even if that produces more harm (or less good) than doing the wrong thing: Deontologists live in a universe of moral rules, such as:
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