[3] Due to this, it can be considered an instance of what has been called "suffering-focused ethics", the view that the reduction of suffering has moral priority over any other possible duties we may think of.
[4][5] A specific type of consequentialism is utilitarianism, which says that the consequences that matter are those that affect aggregate well-being.
[10] G. E. Moore's ethics can be said to be a negative consequentialism (more precisely, a consequentialism with a negative utilitarian component), because he has been labeled a consequentialist,[11] and he said that "consciousness of intense pain is, by itself, a great evil"[12] whereas "the mere consciousness of pleasure, however intense, does not, by itself, appear to be a great good, even if it has some slight intrinsic value.
[15] Philosophy professor Clark Wolf defends "negative consequentialism as a component of a larger theory of justice.
"[16] Walter Sinnott-Armstrong interprets Bernard Gert's moral system as a "sophisticated form of negative objective universal public rule consequentialism.