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AI robots, deadly poisons and the relevance of counterexamples: reply to critics

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.1 I do not know what social value, if any, these arguments have.2 I am motivated to present them because using false principles and unsound arguments to defend the dead donor rule (DDR) makes it easier for those who deny an egalitarian view of moral status to promote euthanasia and other offences against human life.

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’.3 For example, I use the non-lethal hepatectomy case to challenge one version of the do-no-harm principle. Omelianchuk replies by…

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Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 04/25/2026 | Link to this post on IFP |
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