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Yes, hello.
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So for the consequentialist approach, so consequentialist theories such as utilitarianism, determine the morality of an action based on its outcomes or consequences.
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So the central idea is that the rightness or wrongness of an action is solely determined by its results.
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Now, an example would be you could imagine you are a doctor with five patients who each need a different organ transplant to survive.
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So one healthy person walks into your clinic and their organs could have, well, and their organs could save, let's say all five patients if harvested.
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So a consequentialist would argue that sacrificing one person to save five is going to be morally justifiable because there's, the action results in the greater overall benefit.
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Now, for the non -consequentialist approach, that would be such as the ontology.
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This would judge the morality of an action based on rules, duties, or intrinsic properties of the action itself, rather than on its consequences...