 One may well wonder whether EU theory, indeed decision theory more generally, is neutral with respect to normative ethics, or whether it is compatible only with ethical consequentialism, given that the ranking of an act is fully determined by the utility of its possible outcomes. Such a model seems at odds with nonconsequentialist ethical theories for which the choice-worthiness of acts purportedly depends on more than the moral value of their consequences. The model does not seem able to accommodate basic deontological notions like agent relativity, absolute prohibitions or permissible and yet suboptimal acts.