This is a common misunderstanding of utilitarianism: failure to count side-effects. Properly applied, utilitarianism probably doesn't endorse this murder.
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You're obfuscating. Yes, there are different versions of utilitarianism, but none I know of says "only consider what's right in front of you, ignoring side-effects".
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Yet even that's open to interpretation. By what metric do you interpret side-effects? How do you conclude that people worrying they might be next on the chopping block is worse than people dying because they can't get the organs they need?
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