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Deontological (duty-based) Ethic

Deontological (duty-based) Ethics is any of a group of normative ethical theories that base assessment of rightness or wrongness of actions on duties or „inherent right-making characteristics“ of actions or rules rather than on consequences (Formalism, Kant, Rawls)