What is Consequentialism?
This is an ethical ideology which states that the morality of an action is dependent purely on its consequences. A simpler way to phrase this would be that the “ends justify the means”. If your action has an overall benefit, then it does not matter about the action itself.
Example: your patient has a terminal illness and is not likely to survive the operation she is about to undertake. Just as she is about to be anaesthetised, she asks you: “doctor, will I be okay?”. A consequentialist ideology supports that lying in this circumstance is acceptable, even though lying itself is not a moral action.
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