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Act consequentialism is the claim that an act is morally right if and only if that act maximizes the good, that is, if and only if the total amount of good for all minus the total amount of bad for all is greater than this net amount for any incompatible act available to the agent on that occasion.
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Jason Isaacs and Phil Davis, particularly Phil Davis (so natty, neat and tippy-toes, so cut glass, behatted and buttoned up), were striking, like Walter Matthau and George Burns in The Odd Couple, that classically incompatible double act.
Williams's argument appears to make acting with integrity incompatible with acting in accordance with act-utilitarianism.
Section 4 allows courts to declare legislation to be incompatible with the act but this does not make the law invalid.
Five law lords upheld an attempt by the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, to halt the newspaper's attempt to declare section 3 of the 1848 act incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998, on the grounds that the older legislation was an obstacle to freedom of speech.
When Zubov arrived, the school's vice-rector wordlessly handed him a signed letter: he had been fired, in accordance with Point 8, Article 81 of the state labor code, which covers the "commission of an immoral act incompatible with the continuation of work".
Dissipative particle dynamics simulations indicate that miktoarm star copolymers localize at the interface between the incompatible solvents and act as molecular bridging agents between the respective gel layers.
A more sophisticated problem outlined by Hodgson (1967: 38) and others is that a promising convention is broadly speaking incompatible with an act utilitarian society.
A person is disqualified from voting in the following situations, which include engaging in acts incompatible with being a Singapore citizen, being of unsound mind, or being in prison for committing a criminal offence: Acts incompatible with Singapore citizenship.
A sixteen-year-old girl named Atefeh Sahaaleh had been executed for "acts incompatible with chastity".
And there was certainly reason to be concerned that Newtonian gravity and STR would prove incompatible: classical gravity acted instantaneously at a distance, while STR eliminated the privileged absolute simultaneity that this instantaneous action presupposes.
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