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    It is not the case that It is not permissible to use an innocent person without consent even to save ten innocent lives

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    • 1.Moral agent-neutrality requires that the same weight be given to each person's rights regardless of whose agency causes the violation.
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    • 2.If five rights-violations are worse than one, then permitting five violations to avoid one treats identical rights as having unequal standing.
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    • 3.A rights framework that systematically produces greater aggregate rights-violations cannot coherently claim to maximize respect for rights.
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    • 1.Thomson's trolley cases demonstrate that redirecting an existing threat differs morally from initiating new harm, collapsing strict agent-relative prohibitions.
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    • 2.Full self-ownership, as Nozick himself concedes, underdetermines outcomes in cases where property rights conflict with catastrophic harm to others.
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    • 1.Full self-ownership holds that individuals are normatively separate
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    • 2.Normatively separate individuals cannot permissibly be used to benefit others without their consent
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    • 3.Pushing an innocent person to the ground without consent constitutes using that person
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