Notes
1 Whether we should adopt MAC or VAC will in turn depend on whether (the more objectionable) VAC is likely to result in more organ donations than (the less objectionable) MAC and whether the increased goods associated with this increase in donations offsets VAC's greater ethical objectionableness.
2. This analysis presumes a substantive but plausible views about rights, which is that your neighbor's right to his boat persists even though you are ethically justified to take the boat without his consent. See Thomson (Citation1990)