XXVIII.

 "...let's ask ourselves, what is it that makes an action morally acceptable or morally forbidden? This is, unsurprisingly, something that different moral theories disagree about. But there's at least one factor or one feature that all, or almost all, moral theories agree about. And that is that the consequences of your action matter. That is, we might or might not think that consequences are the only things that are morally relevant when we think about the morality of your action, but surely it is one thing that's morally relevant — what are the consequences of your action going to be."

© Shelly Kagan
Yale Lectures on Philosophy of Death, 2007