Hooker's rule‐consequentialism, disasters, demandingness, and arbitrary distinctions

According to Brad Hooker's rule-consequentialism, as well ordinary moral prohibitions against lying, stealing, killing, and harming others, the optimific code will include an over-riding “prevent disaster clause”. This paper explores two issues related clause. The first issue is whether clause vague—and this a problem for rule-consequentialism. I argue that on there be cases where it indeterminate given outcome counts such permissible infringe prohibition avoid outcome. in favour of rule-consequentialism makes space vagueness. second how understand so does not make intolerably demanding—and more particularly avoiding over-demandingness requires rule-consequentialist place counterintuitive limit requirements aid. can without placing