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what you call "pretty cool" in your last line, I don't think that includes humans bringing about the good consequences from self-serving motives (e.g. to get a reward), or the actions of the Sun, or wind somehow saving an animal from getting smashed by a car... all those may be cool in more than one way of course, but I take it that's not what you mean!! do correct me if I'm wrong

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if what you call 'cool' in your last line is what you call *morality*, and the things that are not cool in your sense you don't count as *morality* (e.g. the actions of the Sun), then (assuming you are right about morality), consequentialism is false

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