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    It is not the case that 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.

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    • 1.An agent's intention partially constitutes the moral character of an act, not merely its causal structure (Anscombe, 'Modern Moral Philosophy', 1958).
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    • 2.If intending a worker's death is morally equivalent to intending their survival as a foreseen side-effect, the doctrine of double effect collapses into pure consequentialism.
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    • 3.A theory that renders lethal intent morally immaterial cannot coherently ground agent-relative constraints, which are the defining feature of deontology.
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    • 1.The causal independence test in P2 conflates causal sufficiency with moral use: the one worker's presence on the track is a necessary enabling condition for the redirected threat.
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    • 2.Foot's originating distinction between doing and allowing requires that redirecting a threat toward a person treats that person's vulnerability as an instrument, regardless of causal independence from the five saved.
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    • 1.The patient-centered theory evaluates permissibility by whether the victim's body, labor, or talents are used as the means by which the justifying results are produced.
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    • 2.In the trolley case, switching the trolley is causally sufficient to save the five workers independently of whether the one worker exists, escapes, or is present.
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    • 3.Therefore, the one worker's body, labor, or talents are not the means by which the five are saved.
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