Constraints protect us from ourselves by limiting what we can justify; threshold exceptions restore exactly the consequentialist reasoning that constraints were meant to constrain.

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Threshold exceptions(as used in ethics): Special cases where we allow ourselves to break our normal rules when the stakes are high enough or the consequences are extreme—like breaking a rule to prevent disaster.
consequentialism(Applied to terrorism and legal punishment): The view that practices are judged solely by their consequences, such that a practice is wrong only if it has bad consequences on balance.
constraints(Used in the context of time travel space-times to distinguish genuine lawlike constraints from mere contingent compatibility): Restrictions on states on spatial surfaces that hold as a matter of law rather than accidental fact
justify(refers to reasons that would make God's allowance of suffering reasonable): To provide good reasons or a valid explanation for why something is acceptable or necessary.

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