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consequentialist ethical systems  

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  • Consequentialist ethical systems are ethical theories that take the moral status of all actions to depend somehow on the value of their consequences. For example, if a particular action of keeping one's promise is morally obligatory, it is made obligatory by its good consequences, or by the hypothetical good consequences of people accepting a rule that requires it (such as a rule requiring promise keeping). [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Consequentialist Ethical Systems]

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