We've talked about these before
Pushing granny under the bus. Three dilemmas this time, although I've already discussed a couple of them here or somewhere else. Dr Dedicated has five patients who are in urgent need of organ donors. He has a sixth patient who's recently been cured and who he could use as a source of organs for the other five. If he were to use the sixth patient in this way, that person would die, although five lives would be saved. Would it be right to kill one person to save many? This is the old Star Trek (aka Spock) Dilemma. You know the line, "The needs of the star outweigh the needs of realism". Well, he probably said something like that. Actually, there was something like this in the paper yesterday. The news was that the former head of China's food and drug agency has been sentenced to death. Some of the drugs which he authorised caused the deaths of ten people. It was felt that 10 out of 1.3 billion wasn't really sufficient to be of any particular concern. I'd say...