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    It is not the case that You should save the five people instead of the one person

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Each person has an inviolable right not to be sacrificed merely as a means to aggregate benefit for others.
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    • 2.Scanlon's contractualism holds that principles permitting such sacrifice could be reasonably rejected by the one person.
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    • 3.An action violating a principle no individual could reasonably reject is impermissible regardless of aggregate outcomes.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Numbers of victims cannot be aggregated across separate individuals as if they were a single bearer of cumulative harm.
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    • 2.Taurek's 1977 argument establishes that the separateness of persons makes '5 deaths worse than 1 death' a category error.
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    • 3.If outcomes cannot be cardinally compared across distinct persons, the consequentialist premise P1 loses its justificatory force.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Five deaths is a worse outcome than one death
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    • 2.The right action is the one that produces the best outcome
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