Of these three, he rejected the first, on the grounds that no concrete ethical principles are self-evident, and that when they conflict (as they do) we have to take consequences into account in order to decide how to act.
Rather than fault leaders like Fink for imposing a personal agenda on their businesses, we must censure those CEOs who fail to take social consequences into account and, as a result, harm their shareholders' returns.
That is, their 'present' and 'future' selves are psychologically unconnected, as a consequence of which they fail to take delayed consequences into account and tend to opt for immediate gratification by way of criminal behaviour.
When consequences are morally relevant and we seek to produce better consequences rather than worse, then only if we take all consequences into account will we know which alternative actions or practices will in fact produce better consequences.
In newly proposed payment structures, we also take unintended consequences into account, including a deterioration of gaming [ 29] and limited neglect of untargeted quality aspects, yet not to an extent that the gain in effectiveness would be undone [ 30].
Failure to do so will result in our sometimes judging actions or practices to have better consequences than some alternatives when, taking all their consequences into account, they do not in fact have better overall consequences.
With the options, which have an exercise period ranging over nine years, Broughton can choose the best time to cash them in, taking the tax consequences into account.
Taking all its consequences into account, the philosophical system of the world seems to eliminate the indeterminacy required for us to be genuinely free, in our ethical deliberations, to choose between equally possible courses.
The doctor has to weigh up the consequences, taking into account the views of the prisoner and his understanding of the situation before he became unconscious.
On the other hand, all the affected countries are keenly interested in exaggerating the health consequences, taking into account the extensive Western investment in the relief of Chernobyl victims and in dealing with the still-problematic damaged reactor.
As a consequence, taking into account ambiguous allele groups often leads to incongruous estimated frequencies (i.e. subdividing the group results in sharing the frequencies equally among all the alleles composing it).
