Imagine you are a surgeon, and that you have in your care five patients who are terminally ill (through no fault of their own). Suppose that their lives can be saved only if you, the surgeon, kill a healthy person and harvest his organs which you would in turn transplant into the five dying patients' bodies, thereby saving them (albeit at the expense of one healthy person). What would you do and why?
If you were accused of murder in a state with capital punishment, would you want the judge at your trial to be an act-utilitarian, a rule-utilitarian, or neither - and why?
Would like another personal perspective on this?