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
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.
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.