It is possible, then, that the golden rule can itself guide us in identifying which differences of situation are morally relevant.
Critics of this argument generally attempt to identify morally relevant disanalogies between abortion and the kidney failure scenario.
Requiring a property to be universal, however, is different than requiring it to be morally relevant.
The first step is to ascertain all morally relevant information about the scenario at hand in order to make a justified evaluation.
This area of the brain is "a circuit, specialized for recognizing certain problems as morally relevant."
This difference is morally relevant and therefore the two situations should not be used to model each other.
"The consent to sanctions by substantial portions of the affected population is morally relevant," the bishops advised.
The physician 'knew the patient' but is this type of knowledge morally relevant when deciding on life-terminating acts?
Is this shorter time frame relevant morally?
He recognizes that these results are counterintuitive to the way most of us think about morally relevant behavior.