Poll: Kill one, kill a thousand, spare one, spare a thousand?

[Devon Dent]

yes i would the hell do i care about the other 1000. Human life is not worth anything, if you don't know them

 

[LongAndShort]

I'd like to say no, say that I'm better than that, but truth is I would shoot the fucker in the knees and stomach and watch him bleed out slowly.

 

[ethaninja]

No I won't. However, I will kill him afterwards.

 

[Zorg Machine]

Would I die? if not, I would shoot him before he finished explaining about the bomb. If I would die from the blast, I would wait until he finished explaining until I blow his brains out.

 

[Soluncreed]

I would shoot him, but after causing him significant amounts of pain. I would make him eat his own ears and then put his toes where his fingers schould be and his fingers where his toes should be. He ahould not have angered me and has now learned from his mistake.

 

[Milney]

No loopholes, guys. Let´s say if his pulse goes over the normal(either by pain or the stress of going to prison, everyone dies.

Then everyone's dead anyway, and shooting him wouldn't matter.

If it activated as soon as his pulse rose, when he tried to make his escape it'd detonate. Hell, unless he was on Beta Blockers or some other medicine him just standing there confronted by a man with a gun, unsure of the outcome would cause his pulse to race. In fact, whilst he was murdering your family the bomb would have gone off.

So with that caveat, the 1000 people are already dead, so I'd be free to shoot him - after due torture of course.

 

[thePyro_13]

I tend to err on the side of not killing people. Besides, I can always get him later, perhaps when he doesn't have ~1000 hostages...

 

[bobknowsall]

It would be one of those moments where I'm glad I know death isn't much of a punishment anyway.

I.e. third option: Cut out his eyes or something else fun.

I like the way this man thinks. Beat the ever-loving crap out of him, blind him, it's all good as long as his heart keeps beating.

OT: I said no. Despite his horrific acts, I'm not going to get myself killed for revenge. I'll have him imprisoned for life. Let the fucker rot.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

As much as I'd want to, no.
My own revenge isn't worth the lives of a thousand odd people. It's barely worth the life of one.
I'd probably still beat the fuck out of him before I haul his ass to jail, though.

 

[iLikeHippos]

You mean shoot him like a quick death?
That's stupid.

If he's in a public area, I would knock him unconscious, than lift him onto my shoulder towards an empty room/building.

Than I'd take the gun and hit him with the bolt of it until he is bludgeoned enough to not move.
Than I would shove the gun up his ass and pull the trigger.

Before he'd bleed to death, and being incapable of moving, I would run out, screaming "GET OUT OF HERE! THERE'S A FUCKING BOMB ABOUT TO GO OFF!!"

With this, I win.

 

[falcon1985]

Kneecap him, and one more in the spine for good measure.

 

[Auric]

1000?

Fk that, hes not gonna repeat his actions, and i wont own 1000 randoms just for revenge.

That is assuming no alternative though, i mean cant you knock him out, disarm the bomb, and then kill him?

 

[Xylis]

No loopholes, guys. Let´s say if his pulse goes over the normal(either by pain or the stress of going to prison, everyone dies.

That makes no sense at all.

First of all, a hundred things would set off the bomb then. He'd only need to get excited, do something physical, etc. Also, all bombs can be defused. But let's go with the assumption that this one cannot be - which according to the "pulse goes too high" rule means that the bomb will go off anyway pretty soon.

That scenario just isn't logical. Here's one that works a bit better for your purposes:

The premise is the same as in your scenario, but... Before you got a gun and begun to pursue the guy, he had managed to poison you with something that kills you slowly but surely. He also leaves a controller to the bomb nearby, while fleeing the other way.
You now have two options, corner the guy (we assume that he's slowed by something, perhaps a wound in the leg, so you know you'll be able to catch him easily) or stay and defuse the bomb (which will be easy but take too long to make it possible to catch the guy afterwards).
And because you are going to die soon, this is the only chance you get to confront him. You are also the only one who knows what he did, meaning he'll get away free for sure if you don't stop him.

This is flawed. By one thing. I have a gun. I shoot him in the legs. I then defuse the bomb, and then slowly limber my poisoned body towards the evil bastard and put a bullet in his brain as I collapse into my death. What a way to go.

 

[Axeli]

No loopholes, guys. Let´s say if his pulse goes over the normal(either by pain or the stress of going to prison, everyone dies.

That makes no sense at all.

First of all, a hundred things would set off the bomb then. He'd only need to get excited, do something physical, etc. Also, all bombs can be defused. But let's go with the assumption that this one cannot be - which according to the "pulse goes too high" rule means that the bomb will go off anyway pretty soon.

That scenario just isn't logical. Here's one that works a bit better for your purposes:

The premise is the same as in your scenario, but... Before you got a gun and begun to pursue the guy, he had managed to poison you with something that kills you slowly but surely. He also leaves a controller to the bomb nearby, while fleeing the other way.
You now have two options, corner the guy (we assume that he's slowed by something, perhaps a wound in the leg, so you know you'll be able to catch him easily) or stay and defuse the bomb (which will be easy but take too long to make it possible to catch the guy afterwards).
And because you are going to die soon, this is the only chance you get to confront him. You are also the only one who knows what he did, meaning he'll get away free for sure if you don't stop him.

This is flawed. By one thing. I have a gun. I shoot him in the legs. I then defuse the bomb, and then slowly limber my poisoned body towards the evil bastard and put a bullet in his brain as I collapse into my death. What a way to go.

Obviously the bomb is on a timer and the guy already has too much lead to make it possible to return and defuse the bomb afterwards.

 

[Samarith]

I'd just kill him.

There's too many people in the world as it is, 1000 more or less is neither here nor there.

 

[Unrealistic]

I would most definetely shoot him.
Losing a wife AND kid in one day would make me do some crazy things.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Well shooting him does not mean that I will kill him. So yes I will kneecap him amoung other things making sure he will never walk again and be paralyzed from the neck down imprision in his on body for his remaining days.

 

[AtticusSP]

Let him go, get him later.
Because the bomb would kill me as well. I don't know about you guys, but I am not explosion proof.

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

id just use the classic saxon punishment- cut off his hands, and gouge his eyes out and let him be