A brilliant transplant surgeon has five patients, each in need of a different organ, each of whom will die without that organ. Unfortunately, there are no organs available to perform any of these five transplant operations. A healthy young traveler, just passing through the city the doctor works in, comes in for a routine checkup. In the course of doing the checkup, the doctor discovers that his organs are compatible with all five of his dying patients. Suppose further that if man were to disappear, no one would suspect the doctor. From divine command theory explain this dilemma and the problem it presents to divine command theory.
Is an action or deed deemed right because god commands it? Does god command an action because it is right?
