Utilitarian Vs Deontology

Nevertheless, there are significant differences between utilitarian and deontology. Utilitarians and deontology sometimes might arrive at variant answers to the question that whether it is ethical to implement a placebo-controlled trial for the purpose of testing whether the new drugs are efficient. Holding all other things constant, utilitarians might conclude that it is correct to conduct the placebo-controlled trial if the benefits outweigh the costs, while a deontologist would argue that it is unacceptable to apply placebo to a set of people instead of efficient drugs since placebo might be harmful to their health. Different from utilitarianism, deontologists are not concerned with the consequences of actions, but rather with the question