According to Thomson, most people think the surgeon should be allowed to sacrifice a healthy patient if it was 100% guaranteed that he would be able to save the lives of five other people with the organ transplants.

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Thomson argues that most people would find it morally impermissible for a surgeon to sacrifice a healthy patient to save five others, highlighting a moral intuition that individual rights cannot be overridden simply by utilitarian calculations.

According to Thomson, Most People Think the Surgeon Should Be