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"The proper course of action"
"The good procedure"
"The preferred way of doing something in that it is rational, makes sense, and is the way it 'should' be done because it is what needs to happen, the least evil of multiple evils, or has the greatest utility and is the most deontologically sound when ethics are concerned."
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And we kept running into the recta phrases too! So we're probably on the right track. Maybe.
