The paper is both exciting and enlightening.

What? If the paper is anything like the excerpt you provided it is dull and trivially wrong. How did this every get published?

Without trying to be too offensive, what checklist did you apply while endorsing it? Before endorsing the quotation it did you consider for yourself for at least 10 seconds whether the core premise could be easily falsified? Sure, that's not something I expect most people to do but when applying the ever-useful heuristic "What would lukeprog do?" it is part of what I would come up with. My idealism is shattered!

Rights, duty or virtue-based theories cannot account for the fundamental moral importance of consequences.

In past conversations I have had far more trouble convincing people that consequentialist systems can completely incorporate (for example) deontological systems. Indeed, trying to correctly and completely model deontological values in a consequentialist framework is far, far harder than making either deontological or virtue based systems account for the moral importance of consequences. I mean, come on, it is one deontological rule!

Update: see Carl's criticism.

This I like.

(The wedrifid persona is aware that its 'real world' alter ego should not make criticisms of lukeprog's posting given that lukeprog gives him money. It would seem that wedrifid values it's freedom of expression more than the slight reduction in economic expected value.)