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    Supports→Agent-relative consequentialism captures commonsense moral intuitions in transplant-type cases better than agent-neutral consequentialism.

    Agent-relative consequentialism requires observers to adopt the agent's perspective when judging whether an act is wrong for that agent.

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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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