I thank the commentators for their attention to my article and the Journal of Medical Ethics for the opportunity to respond. My goal is to make sound arguments, not to increase donation rates.
True principles can survive rational scrutiny, including the kind of contrived counterexamples that are common in analytic philosophy. I lack the ‘rich contextual knowledge and perceptual sophistication’ that Butorovic describes, so I rely on rational arguments, perhaps ‘Frege-Geach syllogisms’.