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    Frances Kamm and Judith Thomson demonstrated that deontol... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Non-consequentialist theories that include prohibition dilemmas are implausible.

    Frances Kamm and Judith Thomson demonstrated that deontological constraints reflect structural features of rights-violations that survive reflective equilibrium across diverse cases.

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    Key Terms

    Deontological constraints(as used in ethics)
    Hard rules about what actions are forbidden or required, based on duty and principles rather than on whether they produce good outcomes.
    Frances Kamm(mentioned as another major thinker on allocation problems)
    A prominent philosopher who writes about ethics and how to make fair decisions when you can't help everyone—especially relevant to healthcare choices.
    Judith Thomson(as a reference to a specific philosopher)
    An influential American philosopher who wrote important work on ethics, rights, and what actions are morally justified, particularly famous for thought experiments about these topics.
    Rights-violations(as used in ethics and law)
    Actions or situations that wrongfully take away something someone is entitled to or entitled to do.

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    reflective equilibrium(Introduced by Goodman in the context of justifying induction)
    A methodological state reached when considered judgments and the inference rules that best explain those judgments are mutually coherent, achieved by iteratively revising either judgments or rules when conflicts arise

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