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    Supports→The moral value of an action does not depend on mere chance or accidental outcomes.

    An agent who intends harm but accidentally produces good (e.g., intending to kill a neighbor but accidentally healing a boil) has not performed a morally good action, because the action was not undertaken in accordance with the moral law.

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    In accordance with(as used in ethics)
    Done in a way that follows or matches a rule, principle, or standard.
    Intent (or intention)(as used in ethics)
    What you're actually trying to do or accomplish; your conscious purpose or goal when you act.
    Morally good action(as used in ethics)
    An action that is genuinely right or virtuous, not just because it has good results, but because it was done for the right reasons and in the right way.
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    A law constituted by God's imposition, which alone creates genuine obligation — distinct from rational counsel or advice about morality

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    Bolzano stresses that, in assessing an action according to the principle of advancing the general welfare, one must “not only look at its proximate consequences, but also at further ones” (RW I, 237). Since we can never know all the consequences of an action, the principle of advancing the general welfare demands that we always decide in favor of the action which seems most conducive to the welfare of the whole according to those consequences thereof which we can foresee arising from it (RW I, 2

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