Dr. Mann has just seen a patient with severe dementia and learned that the patient has no living relatives. During the day, Dr. Mann has already met with five other patients who need various organs and are on the list waiting for organ donations. Dr. Mann decides he can save those five people from death by euthanizing the dementia patient and using that patient’s organs for life-saving transplants. What framework might allow Dr.Mann to think he is doing the right thing?
A. Deontology
B. Act utilitarianism
C. Rule utilitarianism
D. Virtue ethics