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Deontological

In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Ancient Greek (déon)'duty, obligation' and (-logía)'study of') is the normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather than based on the consequences of the action.

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