Yet, 238 years later, the proximate consequence of the bigotry toward Obama is that Muslim students, and their families, are being treated as second-class citizens in a manner that is antithetical to everything America stands for.
In that environment, the proximate consequence of systematic ignorance is best seen in articles such as this one, in which the author attempts to celebrate the demise of the metric system by celebrating the very temperature scale that he's making fun of.
Whenever proof of special damage is necessary to maintain an action of slander, the claim for the same must be set forth in the declaration, and it must appear that the special damage is the natural and proximate consequence of the words spoken, else the allegation will not entitle the plaintiff to recover.
Since the proximate pathological consequence of Psickle activation is believed to be elevation of SS cell [Ca2+]i, we monitored Fluo-3 fluorescence emission during deoxygenation in SAD cells.
Liability under this subsection shall not exceed the amount of the check giving rise to the loss or liability, and, where there is bad faith, other damages, if any, suffered as a proximate consequence of any act or omission giving rise to the loss or liability.
Some cases after Hadley have suggested that the injury resulting from loss of a machine's use are not foreseeable results of delayed transport, because it is not a usual consequence although it is a proximate consequence.
The focus on proximate consequences of actions and worldly goals by the laity did not preclude a moral understanding of relations with the natural world.
Thus, if an act is morally right when it includes the most net good in its proximate consequences, then it might not be morally wrong either to contribute to the charity or to fail to do so.
Bolzano stresses that, in assessing an action according to the principle of advancing the general welfare, one must "not only look at its proximate consequences, but also at further ones" (RW I, 237).
Now, if we assume that an act must be such a proximate cause of a harm in order for that harm to be a consequence of that act, then consequentialists can claim that the moral rightness of that act is determined only by such proximate consequences.
Hence, this move is worth considering, even though it has never been developed and deviates far from traditional consequentialism, which counts not only proximate consequences but all upshots — that is, everything for which the act is a causally necessary condition.
