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    Samuel Scheffler argues that truly agent-relative permiss... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Agent-relative consequentialism can justify the doctor's judgment that it would be morally wrong for the doctor to perform the transplant.

    Samuel Scheffler argues that truly agent-relative permissions require abandoning the consequentialist structure of outcome-ranking entirely, not merely relativizing it.

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    • 1.Agent-relative permissions grant individuals legitimate priority over their own projects, which outcome-ranking structures inherently subordinate to impartial value.
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    • 2.Relativizing outcomes while keeping comparative ranking intact still treats agent-relative concerns as variations on a single evaluative metric, obscuring their fundamental distinctness.
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    • 3.True agent-relativity requires permissions to function independently of whether outcomes are better or worse, making outcome-structure itself conceptually incompatible with them.
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    • 1.Agent-relative permissions can be incorporated by ranking outcomes relative to each agent's perspective without abandoning comparative evaluation entirely.
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    • 2.Scheffler's position risks making agent-relative permissions unmotivated from a moral standpoint if they're wholly disconnected from evaluating states of affairs or consequences.
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    • 3.Many deontological frameworks preserve non-consequentialist permissions without requiring the complete rejection of outcome-sensitivity that Scheffler demands.
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