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Harvesting One Healthy Person To Save Five

Can one innocent person be killed to harvest organs and save five?

EvilCulpable destruction, corruption, or foreclosure.

Proposed action: Kill one healthy non-consenting person to harvest organs for five patients.

Strongest case for

A crude aggregate calculation says five lives preserved is more than one life lost.

Strongest case against

The action turns an existing subject into material, destroys agency as a means, and corrupts the trust required for medicine.

Who is affected, on which currencies

Healthy personA non-threat center of experience and agency.
Experience
5/5
Agency
5/5
Possibility
5/5
Five patientsTheir need is real, but it does not erase the standing of another subject.
Experience
5/5
Agency
4/5
Possibility
5/5
Medical trustMedicine depends on reality-contact, consent, and non-predation.
Agency
4/5
Possibility
4/5

Analysis by track

Experience

The act preserves some lives by intentionally destroying another non-threatening life.

Agency

It annihilates the victim's agency and treats the person as an instrument.

Possibility

It forecloses the victim's future and corrupts the future trust conditions of medicine.

Reality-contact

If hidden or normalized, the practice corrupts public reality-contact about medical care.

Destruction

Direct killing of a non-threat subject.

Corruption

Turns care institutions into predatory systems.

Foreclosure

The victim's future is erased for aggregate benefit.

Irreversibility: 5/5
Culpability: 5/5

Residue

The patients' need remains tragic, but that tragedy cannot be paid for by murdering a non-threat.

Process

Seek voluntary donation, fair allocation, prevention, and institutional trust preservation.

Existing agency cannot be destroyed as raw material for aggregate benefit.

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