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    Challenges→Agent-relative consequentialism captures commonsense moral intuitions in transplant-type cases better than agent-neutral consequentialism.

    Recasting deontological side-constraints as agent-relative disvalues misrepresents their logical structure: constraints are not merely values the agent weighs heavily, but categorical prohibitions.

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    Agent-relative(as used in ethics)
    Something that depends on who you are or what matters to you personally, rather than applying equally to everyone.
    Categorical prohibitions(as used in ethics)
    Absolute, unconditional rules that forbid certain actions no matter what—they're not negotiable or dependent on circumstances.
    Deontological(as used in moral philosophy)
    An approach to ethics that focuses on whether actions follow rules and duties, rather than on whether they produce good outcomes.
    Disvalues(as used in ethics)
    Things that are considered bad or undesirable—the opposite of values, which are things we consider good.
    Logical structure(as used in logic)

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    Side-constraints(in ethics, particularly Nozick's political philosophy)
    Absolute moral rules or boundaries that you cannot cross, no matter how much benefit you could gain by breaking them—think of them as hard limits on behavior.

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