Justifying Consequentialist Justification

The paper describes the commonsense conceptual and substantive grounds of consequentialist, or greater good, moral justification. It then concisely describes several competing theories and explains why they and other objections are not foundational, leaving comparative overall duly diligently expected value as the sole valid criterion that makes actions morally better or worse. Contract, intuitionist and virtue ethics remain functionally important within a consequentialist framework.