Imagine That Five Patients Will Die Unless They Receive New

question 3

Multiple Choice

Imagine that five patients will die unless they receive new organs from a healthy stranger. From a utilitarian point of view, it thus seems right to kill one innocent patient to save five.

• A) Utilitarians can respond that all things considered the overall consequences of killing healthy patients would be negative, because patients would no longer trust their doctors.
• B) Utilitarians can respond that all things considered the overall consequences of killing healthy patients are hard to predict, which means that we have a compelling reason for not killing healthy patients.
• C) Utilitarians respond that all things considered the overall consequences of killing healthy patients can be expected to be negative under some circumstances, which means that we have a compelling reason for not killing healthy patients.
• D) All of the above

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