Consequentialism and social inequality
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Everybody in society strives to some degree to be good people. However, being a good person does not always come easily. What is a good person anyway? When one begins to think about what needs to be done to be considered a good person, questions begin to arise. The realm of moral philosophy is concerned with these types of questions. One prominent moral theory that many different theorists have aligned themselves with is consequentialism. This theory stems from the notion that many people in society have, and it states that an action can be judged as right or wrong based on the consequence that it produces. For example, to kill another is wrong because it yields a negative consequence: death. As such, immoral actions are those that result in bad outcomes, and moral actions are those that result in good outcomes.
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