u/LeftBroccoli6795

Lets say John presses a button that he believes will save, say, 10 people. However, pressing the button kills 10 people instead.

Under typical consequentialism wouldn’t he be taking the immoral action? From my knowledge, consequentialism says that if an action leads to bad consequences, the action is immoral. But surely this can’t be it. Because surely John didn’t do anything wrong.

am I thinking about this incorrectly?