| Not all deontologists and consequentialists would attempt to reduce the virtues to mere dispositions to perform certain actions or to maximize the good. |
| Consequentialists hold, that is, that the justice of social rules is determined exclusively by the quality of the overall distribution produced by these rules. |
| This position allows consequentialists to recognize the possibility of irresolvable moral dilemmas. |
| For both consequentialists and deontologists, the killing of innocent people could be justified in some imaginable world. |
| Many of the leading approaches are commonly grouped into competing camps of deontologists and Kantians on the one hand and consequentialists or utilitarians on the other. |
| Moreover, for consequentialists living in relatively affluent circumstances, this will apparently be a routine occurrence. |
