So a new twist on the 'would you kill' topics...

[SenseOfTumour]

It's always about, would you kill a family member or a hundred strangers, etc, right?

I was watching a horror movie, and the question came to my mind.

Given the choice, would you shoot down a small plane with a guided rocket, that would crash out of sight, carrying 8 to 12 people, or would you walk up to one bound man, and look him in the eyes as you slice his torso completely open, spilling his innards across the floor in front of you?

I'm sad to say I'm such a coward I'd take out the plane.

This is obviously adhering to all the usual rules, you won't get caught, there's a way you're being forced to choose, there'll be no-one you know involved, etc, all that stuff.

I don't think the guilt of ending a dozen random lives would haunt me as much as seeing a man's pain close up and watching the life fade from his eyes in front of me.

 

[Mafoobula]

I reject the premise of this scenario. Turn the guided rocket around and blast the fuck out of whomever is forcing me to make this choice, go Freddy on the survivors with the knife. With the obvious exception of any innocents involved.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I did say usual rules, ok, they've got all your friends and family and a million bucks in a room, choose or after an hour, the floor drops away into a pit of lava.

Any hostile moves apart from the two offered, and the floor leaves early, and the explosive collar goes off around your neck.

I'm purely interested to see if people think they could handle committing a murder up close if it would save more lives.

I don't think I could, sadly.

 

[Glowbug]

I'd kill the guy. It's purely mathematical, I could live with that choice far more than the helicopter.

 

[Knife]

I'd go for the whole innards thing, blood and gore doesn't affect me as much and I'd potentially "save" 7-11 people. My family is a bunch of doctors and I myself have been through a couple accidents (nothing too serious but a lot of bleeding and some stitches involved). There were a couple times were I performed "surgery" on my friends - basically cut a little meat to get some shard/nail out.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I'd kill the guy. It's purely mathematical, I could live with that choice far more than the helicopter.

That's the only logical decision, yet I don't think I could do it. I'm glad other people have different opinions, be interesting to see who's in the majority, it being 1-1

 

[Glowbug]

I'd kill the guy. It's purely mathematical, I could live with that choice far more than the helicopter.

That's the only logical decision, yet I don't think I could do it. I'm glad other people have different opinions, be interesting to see who's in the majority, it being 1-1

It's strange because it's not really a moral question for me, but it's interesting to see the different arguments.

 

[Tortilla the Hun]

I'd kill the guy. It's purely mathematical, I could live with that choice far more than the helicopter.

You know it's a plane, right? Not a helicopter...

As for my choice, I'd kill the bound man. I would of course apologize beforehand, telling him that this is the right decision and something along the lines of "one man does not a plane full of people make."

 

[Glowbug]

I'd kill the guy. It's purely mathematical, I could live with that choice far more than the helicopter.

You know it's a plane, right? Not a helicopter...

As for my choice, I'd kill the bound man. I would of course apologize beforehand, telling him that this is the right decision and something along the lines of "one man does not a plane full of people make."

Oh, it's a plane? Oh I'll shoot them down then .

Being British, apologising and being polite beforehand is a must.

 

[kyllmikael]

Killing the guy is logical but I agree with you; I'd shoot down the plane. Seeing someone's face humanizes them and I couldn't live with knowing him-- however little.

 

[Knife]

Oh, it's a plane? Oh I'll shoot them down then .

Being British, apologising and being polite beforehand is a must.

To quote Baldur's Gate "I'm very sorry, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you."

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I would kill the individual. The fact that people in the plane would die out of my sight has no impact on my decision. I don't have to look at them to be able to see them. They would still die, and it would be more horrible. I'd know that they died in agony.

 

[Tortilla the Hun]

I'd kill the guy. It's purely mathematical, I could live with that choice far more than the helicopter.

You know it's a plane, right? Not a helicopter...

As for my choice, I'd kill the bound man. I would of course apologize beforehand, telling him that this is the right decision and something along the lines of "one man does not a plane full of people make."

Oh, it's a plane? Oh I'll shoot them down then .

Being British, apologising and being polite beforehand is a must.

Of course, right you are. However, I fail to see how one might apologize to the people in the plane before shooting them down with a rocket. Unless of course you decided to tape a letter of apology to the rocket so that way the fast readers will at least know that they were being killed by someone with decency.

 

[Glowbug]

I'd kill the guy. It's purely mathematical, I could live with that choice far more than the helicopter.

You know it's a plane, right? Not a helicopter...

As for my choice, I'd kill the bound man. I would of course apologize beforehand, telling him that this is the right decision and something along the lines of "one man does not a plane full of people make."

Oh, it's a plane? Oh I'll shoot them down then .

Being British, apologising and being polite beforehand is a must.

Of course, right you are. However, I fail to see how one might apologize to the people in the plane before shooting them down with a rocket. Unless of course you decided to tape a letter of apology to the rocket so that way the fast readers will at least know that they were being killed by someone with decency.

A nicely painted rocket? I don't know.

OT: I feel sorry for the soldiers who have to make this decision in real life, because of how haunting it must be.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I'm finding this interesting, even more so as people seem to be answering the question based on different things, I don't think I should say yet my main factor in my question, until the conversation value is exhausted, however.