Without an overriding commitment to maximize the expected good, there is nothing incoherent in rule-consequentialism’s forbidding some kinds of act, even when they maximize the expected good. Likewise, there is nothing incoherent about rule-consequentialism’s requiring other kinds of act, even when they conflict with maximizing the expected good. The best known objection to rule-consequentialism dies once we realize that neither the rule-consequentialist agent nor the theory itself contains an overriding commitment to maximize the good.