Consequentialism, broadly speaking, claims that the moral factor of promoting thegoodistheonly moral factor–the right action is that which will bring about the best overall results, and, we are morally obligated to carry out actions of this sort. 1 The major objections to this moral theory center on two different issues: that it permits too much, and that it demands too much. Speaking for consequentialism's deontological critic in his Normative Ethics, Shelly Kagan2

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