You are running an organ donation laboratory. You play the role of the office manager, who controls the lab and the doctors within it. Currently, in the office, there are 5 patients awaiting organ transplants. One needs a heart, another, a liver, the third, a kidney, the fourth, a pancreas, and finally the last person needs a lung. Assume all the patients can accept any organ without their body rejecting it, and that all have only one day to live if they don’t get their transplants. A person comes in as a possible donor of a kidney for a family member and is found to match all 5 of the current dying patients.
You only have two options open to you: Will you do nothing and let 5 die, or will you kill 1 so that the 5 can live?