In the video about the trolley problem, Michael Sandel prese…

In the video about the trolley problem, Michael Sandel presented these two situations: A doctor has to choose whether to save one patient with major injuries while letting five others with minor injuries die, or to save the five with minor injuries while letting the one with major injuries die. A doctor has to choose whether to let five people with a desperate need for organ transplants die, or to take the organs from a healthy bystander, killing him but saving the five. Nearly everyone agrees that the doctor should save the five in 1) but should not save them (by killing someone else) in 2). The trick is to explain why it is logical to give two different answers for the two different situations.Now, suppose the doctrine of doing and allowing is true. How would that help us get the “right” answers — that is, how does it explain why the doctor should save the five in 1) but not in 2)?