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?

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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.

This view is tied to utilitarianism, associated with thinkers like Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.

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