Sacrifice and consent
About 3–6 minutes · One starting situation and two variations
Ask how consent and the number saved affect permission to act.
Content note
A wholly fictional medical premise involving fatal sacrifice. This is not medical or legal guidance. Simple character animations are shown, without gore or sound effects.
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Assume that the only way to save five people is a transplant that would require the fatal sacrifice of one healthy person. That person has received a full explanation and has not consented.
Treat these conditions as fictional premises, not as claims about real treatment.
Under these premises, is the act morally permissible?
- It can be permitted
- It cannot be permitted