A just society ought to presume consent for organ procurement from the deceased.

RESPONSE:"Consequentialism - Moral considerations must be based in physical facts about our mental states because the universe is causally closed."This is clearly a philosophical claim and not a scientific claim because there would be neuroscientist that would suggest it or agree with it. Morality has nothing to do with anything physical because all sensations are exclusively controlled by the central nervous system[1]. Therefore the identifying with certain morals is only determined internally based on how the central nervous system reacts. Most sensations whether it be pain or joy have no physical evidence to determine the health or lack of health of an individual. A good example would be how depression can increase the likelihood of death. Yet in many cases, when someone is suffering from depression there is no physical deterioration of the human anatomy at the time of death[2]. Depression and/or anger can also increase the chances of a stroke or heart attack yet it would be difficult to point to those as the leading factors since this may only be correlation not causation. To state that "moral considerations must be based in physical facts" is rather unfounded because there is no physical evidence in many cases to indicate a fact. This is why clinical psychology is considered a joke by many. This is also why the DRM is considered a joke by many too. From practitioner to practitioner they will arrive at different results for the same patient because there are no physical facts. So they can only assumptions can be offered based on the practitioner's perception of the patient which can often lead to misdiagnosis. Therefore moral considerations can't be considered facts because they are incapable of being determined to be facts. [1]http://pain.about.com...[2]http://www.webmd.com..."The only way to prevent this is to stop all organ donation and to focus our efforts on finding a way to stop the Solanum virus."My opponent must of forgot what he quoted in the paragraph above before he made this statement. " A zombie bite, although by far the most recognizable means of transference, is by no means the only one." How does stopping organ donations stop zombie bites? Zombie biting is a faster process than organ transplanting. Yet my opponent has made the claim that somehow that stopping organ donations would stop Solanum which is a 100 percent communicable and 100 percent fatal. Stopping organ donations would not stop the Solanum virus."First, it negates since it gives us a reason not to want presumed consent. If we want to stop the potential spread of the Solanum virus, we need to stop all possible forms of transfer. If we don"t want organ donation, we certainly don"t want to presume that people want to donate organs."My opponent doesn't realize how presumed consent would function in practice. If someone has a defective kidney at the time of death that defective kidney would not be transplanted to someone else. If someone suffered from lung cancer at the time of death, their lungs would not be transplanted into to someone else either. A virus would not deteriorate the entire human anatomy.