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Teleological Analysis
In a teleological viewpoint, it is based and focuses on the consequences more than the action that is being made. If someone who has a teleological viewpoint hears the driver say at his trial that, “I was only trying to help.” The teleological viewpoint opposes the rightness or wrongness, but it mainly based on the consequences. They would argue that what he said on his trial does not make what he did right. People who view this viewpoint do not care if your actions were coming from good intention, they believe if the choice is a bad one that you deserve something bad as well.
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