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    Challenges→Deontological constraints cannot be rejected simply because complying with them produces worse aggregate states of affairs.

    If constraints derive their justificatory force from their tendency to produce better outcomes, then a constraint that systematically produces worse outcomes loses its normative grounding.

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    Key Terms

    Consequentialist reasoning(as used in ethics)
    A way of making decisions based on what outcomes or results will happen, rather than following fixed rules—like choosing the action that will make the most people happy.
    Justificatory force(epistemology)
    The power or ability of something to serve as a good reason or evidence for believing something else.
    Normative grounding(as used in ethics)
    The foundation or basis that makes a rule or principle morally valid and worth following.
    Systematically(as describing a consistent problem with voting methods)
    Happening as a regular pattern or built-in feature of how something works, rather than by accident or rarely.
    constraints(Used in the context of time travel space-times to distinguish genuine lawlike constraints from mere contingent compatibility)

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    Restrictions on states on spatial surfaces that hold as a matter of law rather than accidental fact
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    Relating to how things should be or what people ought to do, rather than just describing how things actually are.

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