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    The patient-centered view and agent-centered views differ... — Carmelics
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    The patient-centered view and agent-centered views differ in their treatment of the trolley problem and analogous cases.

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    • 1.Agent-centered views focus on the agent's mental state or whether the agent acted or caused the victim's harm.
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    • 2.Patient-centered views focus on whether the victim's body, labor, or talents were the means by which the justifying results were produced.
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    • 3.These distinct foci yield different verdicts on cases like the trolley problem and the transplant case.
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    • 1.Foot's original trolley problem was designed to test the doctrine of double effect, which straddles agent- and patient-centered concerns simultaneously.
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    • 2.Cases that motivated both frameworks were constructed to isolate variables that neither framework cleanly separates, undermining the claim that they yield systematically different verdicts.
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    • 3.Judith Jarvis Thomson's later revisions to trolley cases showed that intuitions track factors neither framework adequately captures, suggesting the dichotomy is theoretically underdetermined.
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    • 1.Frances Kamm and Judith Thomson's work shows that agent-centered and patient-centered constraints often converge on identical verdicts in trolley-type cases.
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    • 2.When two frameworks yield the same practical verdicts across canonical cases, their alleged theoretical difference lacks the action-guiding significance the claim implies.
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    Agent-centered views focus on the agent's mental state or whether the ...76%The patient-centered theory evaluates permissibility by whether the vi...72%On the patient-centered libertarian deontological view, switching the ...71%These distinct foci yield different verdicts on cases like the trolley...69%

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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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