On Urmson's interpretation, Mill is really saying that an action is right if it is a token of a type of act that tends to have good or optimal consequences.
For optimal consequences, pre-implementation assessments should focus on the effects on risks to local staff members, the influence on local political relations, and the long-term relations to beneficiaries.
Given the value of such relationships, agents will, in the long run, produce more overall good if they dispose themselves to benefit loved ones, even if such dispositions lead them, on occasion, to perform an action with less than optimal consequences.
Since consequentialism makes the permissibility of an action entirely dependent on the value of that action's consequences, it follows that there is no type of action that can be prohibited on consequentialist grounds (except, of course, for that 'type' which is defined explicitly in terms of sub-optimal consequences).
Still, rule-consequentialism's contention is that bringing about widespread acceptance of a simpler and less demanding code, even if acceptance of that code does sometimes lead people to do acts with sub-optimal consequences, has higher expected value in the long run than bringing about widespread acceptance of a maximally complicated and demanding code.
Not only the yielded information is practically the same (below error tolerance), but also the selections differ by a single sample over κ. > -wrap-foot> as a consequence, optimal and near-optimal design exhibit indistinguishable probability of selecting the 'true model' from the data.
Conversely, the quality of services provided to patients has remained largely sub-optimal, with consequences for disease control and patient experience [ 6, 7].
As a consequence, optimal TMS application should always take into account the individual orientation of the gyrus to be stimulated.
As a consequence, optimal pH values for binding to or elution from an ion exchange column can be predicted by the isoelectric point (pI) for many proteins [6] with loading pHs about 0.5 1 pH units above or below the pI of the respective protein [7], [8].
Guideline adherence in physical therapy is far from optimal, which has consequences for the effectiveness and efficiency of physical therapy care.
As a consequence, the optimal solution is achieved gradually.
