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Deliberate contrary-to-law action is a kind of action that caused by the inconsistent of law and personal intention. This kind of action is not encouraged, however, it offen happens in our society as a kind of irrational actions. In this paper I will use the theory of agents and choices to show that deliberate contrary-to-law action is not a kind of irrational actions. It is a pragmatic problem which can be interpreted by perspectival act utilitarianism. But perspectival act utilitarianism is based on decision theory especialy the theory of normative behavior. I think the theory of descirptive behavior is more suitable to interpret deliberate contrary-to-law action so I will alter some disciplines in John Hortys perspectival act utilitarianism to show why people do deliberate contrary-to-law action. The modified perspectival act utilitarianism can also be a kind of interpretation about irrational actions.
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Jia, Q. (2009). Deliberate Contrary-to-Law Action. In: He, X., Horty, J., Pacuit, E. (eds) Logic, Rationality, and Interaction. LORI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5834. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04893-7_28
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