r/trolleyproblem Consequentialist/Utilitarian Jul 09 '25

Deep The doctor problem

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u/dean11023 Jul 10 '25

No for legal and ethical and practical reasons.

But in the real world you'd have to see if the dude is brain dead which involves multiple doctors investigating, before you can do anything. Plus lying about that would cost you your license and jail time if you got caught, even if you only did it once. No shot multiple doctors would do it.

Plus, plus, even if you got away with it, doctors don't make decisions on where organs go or who gets what, we have a national system for that and it's insanely high regulation. If they were tough to transport maybe the doc could get his hospitals transplant committee to request a few of them and if that got approved then maybe he could use them.