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Computer and information ethics, as well as other fields of applied ethics, need ethical theories which coherently unify deontological and consequentialist aspects of ethical analysis. The proposed theory of just consequentialism emphasizes consequences of policies within the constraints of justice. This makes just consequentialism a practical and theoretically sound approach to ethical problems of computer and information ethics.
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Moor, J.H. Just consequentialism and computing. Ethics and Information Technology 1, 61–65 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010078828842
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