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Demo Classroom Debate: Medical Ethics
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Selected claim, opposing its parent
Maximizing utility for the majority can sometimes only be brought about by punishing an innocent person. Utilitarianism would permit such an unjust action.
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Pro claim 1
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popular example
outlining this objection to utilitarianism is that in a situation where five mortally ill patients and one healthy patient are checked into a hospital, utilitarianism would allow for the healthy patient's organs to be harvested in order to save the lives of the other patients. Taking an innocent person's life should never be permissible.
Pro claim 2, children below
Utilitarianism fails to take seriously the separateness of persons.