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180) It is in this spirit of consequentialism that Justice Breyer goes to the great length of citing decisions from the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe--not exactly a bastion of human rights values.
To understand foreign court citation: dissecting originalism, dynamism, romanticism, and consequentialism
Samuel Seheffler, Introduction to CONSEQUENTIALISM AND ITS CRITICS 1, 1 (Samuel Scheffler ed.
Rhetoric and the Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning
While undoubtedly removed from contemporary philosophical debates about consequentialism, virtually all public servants intuitively resort to the premium attached in democratic societies to being able to defend actions or rules in terms of their impacts on all affected stakeholders in specific situations.
Acting on values: an ethical dead end for public servants
The basic problem with consequentialism is that it recognizes no limit in principle on what can be done to people in order to promote good consequences.
Coercion vs. Consent
Consequentialism tells us to judge human action solely in terms of its consequences.
Terrorism: what is it and can it ever be morally justified?
First, consequentialism allows immoral acts if the act is expected to produce the net greatest good, that is, it allows some people to be harmed to serve the greater good (Scheffer 1998).
Ethical perspectives for public and environmental health: fostering autonomy and the right to know. (Commentary)
Does acceptance of the incommensurability thesis imply the rejection of consequentialism as a comprehensive guide to moral choice in law-making?
Law-making and incommensurability
Would the liberal consequentialism sketched in Part I violate the weak Pareto principle?
A liberal theory of social welfare: fairness, utility, and the Pareto principle
For perhaps understandable reasons, in 1980 there seemed little awareness of the manner in which bean-counter consequentialism would influence the debate.
Death, Dying, and Euthanasia
Many ethicists prescribe methods for reaching ethically correct decisions by adhering to the perspectives of specific schools of ethical thought like deontology or consequentialism.
Developing a social work research agenda on ethics in health care
One would normally think that it is but natural to be sensitive to the consequences of specific states and to take positive steps to guard moral rights if these are threatened; even if one rejects the strict consequentialism of the utilitarian philosophy, which would judge the rightness of specific actions by the goodness of the consequences, and by nothing else.
For morality's sake!
This lends both precision and credence to the view that there is a fundamental mismatch between epistemic consequentialism and the intuitive notion of epistemic rationality.
Mind: Vol. 122, Issue 488, October 2013

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