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    If an act is morally justifiable by its balance of good a... — Carmelics
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    Supports→On the patient-centered libertarian deontological view, switching the trolley to save five workers at the cost of one is permissible even if the agent intends to kill the one worker.

    If an act is morally justifiable by its balance of good and bad consequences and achieves good consequences without non-consensually using anyone as a means, then the agent's intention to achieve bad consequences is morally immaterial to the act's permissibility.

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    balance of good and bad consequences(ethics)
    Weighing the positive outcomes against the negative outcomes to see if the benefits outweigh the harms.
    consequentialism(Applied to terrorism and legal punishment)
    The view that practices are judged solely by their consequences, such that a practice is wrong only if it has bad consequences on balance.
    morally justifiable(ethics)
    An action is considered morally justifiable when you have good reasons that make it acceptable or right to do it.

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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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