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    Supports→In assessing the culpability of risky conduct, good consequences that risk being achieved through a 'using' of a person must be discounted and cannot justify the act.

    Good consequences must also be discounted by the perceived risk that they will be brought about by a non-consensual using of a person's body, labor, or talents.

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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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