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Not teeth. That's dens from the Latin. The root of this word is the Greek deon - duty. So:
Deontology: study of moral necessity, duty, or obligation. A deontological normative theory holds that moral worth is an intrinsic feature of human actions, determined by formal rules of conduct. Thus, deontologists like Kant suppose that moral obligation rests solely upon duty, without requiring any reference to the practical consequences that dutiful actions may happen have.
Deontologism: any ethical position claiming that the rightness or wrongness of actions depends on whether they correspond to our duty or not. The word derives from the Greek word for duty, "deon". More generally, any kind of ethical theory that puts its emphasis on universal imperatives like moral laws, duties, obligations, prohibitions, and so on (sometimes this is also called "imperativism"). Kantianism is the prime example of a deontological theory, and generally speaking such theories are varieties of altruism. Some thinkers even go so far as to claim that deontology is the extent of ethics, and that any interest in personal happiness or fulfillment is mere egoism and therefore not a matter for ethical theory.
These guys are ethical theorists, so they use ethical theory gobbldygook. What they mean by it sound exactly like situational ethics to me.
The christian right are a bunch of prejudiced idiots.
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