Doctor scenario
You are a doctor in an emergency room. Six patients come to you who have been in a terrible trolley car accident. One is seriously injured, and five are moderately injured. You could spend all your time saving one seriously injured patient, but the other five would die. Or you could split your time between the five moderately injured patients, but the other one would die.
Question: Is your reasoning different from the trolley problem? Why/why not?
Surgeon scenario
You have five patients who all need different organ transplants, or they will die. You know for sure you will not get donor organs in time. There's a perfectly healthy person napping next door with all the right organs in working order...
Question: Is your reasoning different from the trolley or doctor problem? Why/why not?