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I second the question. Is there a standard reply in deontology? The standard reply of a consequentialist, of course, is the utility function.
In my experience, deontologists treat this as a feature rather than a bug. The absolute necessity that the rules never conflict is a constraint, which, they think, helps them to deduce what those rules must be.