Outcome based ethics are what we use when we have sufficient information to judg

Outcome based ethics are what we use when we have sufficient information to judge outcomes.

When we fail to have that information we fall back upon general rules.

When we fail to have that information we fall back upon virtues.

When we fail to have that information we fall back upon myth and tradition.

The reason we do this is that people (in fact, everywhere) hold us accountable for using the ethical model that corresponds to the information we are expected to possess.

The reason for that is that it is very easy to claim a false positive by acting in your self interest by relying upon a less precise form of decidability. Ergo: virtue signaling, and claiming conviction to circumvent paying the cost of action. (ie: immigration)

In fact, the entire marxist/postmodernist/libertarian/neocon program, is designed to create and exploit moral hazards precisely by the use of this technique of false positives.