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The answer should be consent and the recognition that everyone is the highest authority over their own body. I may choose to deffer to an expert on decisions about myself but no amount of expertise or potential benefit to others will convince me to do something against another person without their consent. There need to be a deontological veto to any consequentialist analysis when the proposed action is coercive.



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