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    Agent-relative consequentialism can justify the doctor's ... — Carmelics
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    Agent-relative consequentialism can justify the doctor's judgment that it would be morally wrong for the doctor to perform the transplant.

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    • 1.Agent-relative value allows an agent to judge the value of outcomes from the agent's own perspective rather than a neutral observer's perspective.
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    • 2.From the doctor's perspective as agent, the world with the transplant is worse because it includes a killing by the doctor.
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    • 3.Agent-relative consequentialism holds that an act is morally wrong if and only if the act's consequences include less overall value from the perspective of the agent.
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    • 1.Agent-relative value, when formalized consequentially, still requires maximizing value, making agent-partiality a constraint, not a genuine consequentialist justification.
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    • 2.Samuel Scheffler argues that truly agent-relative permissions require abandoning the consequentialist structure of outcome-ranking entirely, not merely relativizing it.
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    • 3.A theory that prohibits the transplant via agent-relative disvalue is functionally deontological and loses the defining consequentialist claim that outcomes alone determine rightness.
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    • 1.Derek Parfit demonstrated that agent-relative consequentialism generates inconsistent social rankings: two agents can each correctly judge a different outcome as best, producing contradictory moral verdicts.
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    • 2.If the doctor's killing is agent-relatively worse but the outcome is agent-relatively better for the five patients' doctors, the framework yields no coherent all-things-considered moral verdict.
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    This kind of case leads some consequentialists to introduce agent-relativity into their theory of value (Sen 1982, Broome 1991, Portmore 2001, 2003). To apply a consequentialist moral theory, we need to compare the world with the transplant to the world without the transplant. If this comparative evaluation must be agent-neutral, then, if an observer judges that the world with the transplant is better, the agent must make the same judgment, or else one of them is mistaken. However, if such evalu
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