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| And, one might add, whenever we speak: to exclude duplicitous speech from consequentialist considerations is, for a speaking animal whose common life is woven in large part with threads of speech, to set a large sphere of life outside the world. But by the logic of their position the consistent consequentialist (happily a rara avis) must always be open to the possibility that killing, torturing, or enslaving the innocent might be called for under special circumstances, and this recognition necessarily taints the character of even one's ordinary relations to other people. He carefully weighs possible outcomes and he leans heavily on consequentialist thinking in developing his own answers. |
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