Actions can be right or wrong depending on consequences {consequentialism}. Actions can be right or wrong depending on result rightness or wrongness {act-consequentialism} {direct consequentialism}. Consequences can be personal or social, can be effects or states, can involve optima or only improvements, can lead to equitable distributions, or can surpass minimum thresholds. Utilitarianism is consequentialist. Actions can be right or wrong depending on consequences of choosing certain rules {indirect consequentialism} {rule-consequentialism}. However, people cannot know, pay attention to, or weigh all consequences. Perhaps, people cannot affect others much.
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