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As Tesón suggests, just cause (e.g., self-defense) is a necessary but not sufficient justification for armed humanitarian intervention, which "may be impermissible because of its bad consequences" (Tesón 2014, p. 73).
Yet the social arguments against suicide are fundamentally consequentialist, and some act-utilitarians have discussed the correlative possibility that the good consequences of suicide might so outweigh its bad consequences as to render suicide admirable or even morally obligatory (Cosculluela 1995, 76 81).
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Of course growth can be good, but too often it has bad consequences for businesses.
Terrorism is not considered wrong in itself, but only if it has bad consequences on balance.
It not only anticipates good and bad consequences; it also performs a unique mathematical feat: it predicts the odds of those consequences.
Because it leads to bad consequences.
The process is sometimes called "polarization". It has two bad consequences for the economy and society.
He thought it would have really bad consequences for the U.S. and the U.K., for starters.
If it runs out of patience, bad consequences will await enemies".
Consequentialist ethics focuses on all bad consequences, not just on abusive conduct and its downstream consequences.
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