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The doctor

A doctor has five patients who will die tonight without organ transplants. A healthy stranger walks into the hospital for a routine checkup. No one would ever know if the doctor sacrificed the stranger to save the five. Should the doctor do it?

Reasons for blue

The healthy person is innocent. Killing someone intentionally is fundamentally wrong, even if it helps others. People should never be treated as “tools” or spare parts. If doctors could kill healthy patients for organs, trust in hospitals would collapse. This way of thinking is associated with philosophers like Immanuel Kant. Kant argued that humans must always be treated as ends in themselves, not merely as means to an outcome.

Reasons for red

Five lives are worth more than one. Refusing to act means allowing five preventable deaths. Morality should reduce total suffering as much as possible. This view is tied to utilitarianism, associated with thinkers like Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.