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No, recursion has to end somewhere. You can't just say "something bad is something that leads to bad consequences" and stop there, or you'll have infinite recursion.
Consequentialism needs a few "terminal values", a few things which are bad or good "per-se", usually an utility function (and suffering is very likely a term in computing the utility function itself). Then you judge acts on how they increase or decrease this utility function.
Deontology is (bounded) consequentialism in the limit where your search depth goes to zero.