"Deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek \u03B4\u03AD\u03BF\u03BD, deon, \"obligation, duty\")is the normative ethical position that judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to a rule or rules.It is sometimes described as \"duty-\" or \"obligation-\" or \"rule-\" based ethics, because rules \"bind you to your duty.\" Deontological ethics is commonly contrasted to consequentialism, virtue ethics, and pragmatic ethics."@en . . .