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    Supports→The patient-centered view and agent-centered views differ in their treatment of the trolley problem and analogous cases.

    Agent-centered views focus on the agent's mental state or whether the agent acted or caused the victim's harm.

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    Notice, too, that this patient-centered libertarian version of deontology handles Trolley, Transplant et al. differently from how they are handled by agent-centered versions. The latter focus on the agent’s mental state or on whether the agent acted or caused the victim’s harm. The patient-centered theory focuses instead on whether the victim’s body, labor, or talents were the means by which the justifying results were produced. So one who realizes that by switching the trolley he can save five

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