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Consequentialism does not demand ignoring intent, because intent is frequently important and not treating it as such would lead to bad consequences in many cases.
That’s the great thing about consequentialism, when it leads to bad consequences you can adjust it to lead to better ones.
Your own thought experiments bear this out. Moral uncertainty and the fundamental randomness and contingency of future events plague all systems.
Rule utilitarianism, or something like Cowen’s “economic growth plus human rights”, attempt to strike a balance between baseline rules and considering the effects of any given act. The US constitution sets forth rules, limitations, and rights in a framework of promoting the general welfare, directly in line with rule utilitarianism.
If your god inspired the US constitution, he’s clearly a fan of rule utilitarianism.
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