Modern consequentialist theories tend to focus more on the expected consequences of your motive/reason for acting, rather than on the act itself. With that in mind, how
would a modern consequentialist explain the wrongness of the following case?
Fred hates his wife and wishes she were dead. He decides to poison her one morning,
but Fred is pretty dumb and he mistakes some medicine for poison. As it turns out,
Fred's wife had an infection and the medicine ended up saving her life.