Would you kill your friend to save 10 other people

[Rakkana]

Flip a coin. It's not my decision.

 

[Lionsfan]

Gonna save my friend. Especially since I've known him since I was 4 (I'm 18 now), if the ten people really are random how does it concern me at all?

 

[Spleenboy]

This should be a poll.

I would let the strangers die,10 people is nothing. Make it 100 and I'd start to feel bad about it, but to make me actually consider killing a friend. you'd need a million.

 

[Free Thinker]

My best bro's life for 10 stangers?
Screw that! Let those people die. I don't know them!

 

[furnatic]

While I may be selfish, at the same time, I do believe the saying, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Sorry buddy. I'll make it quick and painless.

 

[Zhukov]

+1 to letting the friend live.

I don't know how I'd feel about it afterwards though.

 

[Kwaren]

I would let 10,000 random strangers die to save any one of my friends.

 

[Skrableren]

Nope, what is it was 1000 people then? Nope. 10.000? Nope.

A million people could die and I would never kill my friend.

The fact is that it have nothing to do with me. I'm not doing any killing, who ever is telling me to kill is. And, they can frankly go screw them self. If we reverse it though, kill 100 people to save your friend. by god I would give it a try, kill as many as I could before I broke down. Or just press the button to the boom or what ever.

If you wont do that for your friends. I question if you have had a real friend yet.
Or maybe I'm just nuts.

 

[Flippincrazy]

I'd kill my friend. Why? Because ff you're actually put in a situation like this, you can bet your ass that these ten other people are going to be insignificant. Not only would you cause unhappiness to ten different families but due to the way villains who put you in positions like this are, you'd end up killing ten of the greatest humans who ever lived before they had reached their peak.

And plus, my best friend ate a slice of MY pizza the other day...I warned him he was going to pay...

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

No. I simply lack the moral fibre required to take a person's life, particularly someone I know.

Maybe that makes me a murderer, but I'll take inaction over pulling the trigger myself. Really, it's the fault of the mission giver anyway.

This. I'd let the ten people die simply because I couldn't bring myself to kill someone.

 

[Adecristo]

No, my friends are more valuable to me than 10 other people.

This is what I wanted to hear. The value of people.
I myself wouldn't kill my friend, but obviously I don't think I'd do something right by doing so. Objectively, it's 10 people vs 1 person. These 10 people may also be best friends to other people. By not killing your friend you'd probably shatter lives of many people, making whole families fall into despair..
To be honest, I wouldn't be able to kill my friend. But if I could shut down my emotions for a moment and let my brain do the job, I would rather kill both my friend and myself rather than letting 10 other people die.

The problem is the "you don't know the 10 people AND you would have to actively kill your FRIEND to save them" isn't much of a choice.

This is exactly what I wanted to achieve.. if there was a situation "you know these 10 people and not this one", you'd say "of course I'd 'actively kill' that one person, I don't even know him. Even though I'd be the killer". But here goes the real moral problem - can you sacrifice yourself so much, that you can kill your friend to save 10 other people, who are also friends to many other people, who may be parents, sons, wives and husbands..

Some say, that "if I kill my friend, I will be the killer. If I don't, 10 people will die, but I won't be guilty. But the problem is, you will. It's up to you, if they will live, or if they'll die - even though you're not the one who will pull the trigger.

Some say, that thousands of people die everyday, so 10 more or 10 less doesn't make big difference.
Quoting one of the greatest villains of all time:

The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

Isn't it?

PS. I didn't want to make it a poll, because then I'd hear more "yes/no" instead of "yes/no, because.."

 

[asinann]

I'd kill 10 people AND my best friend for a Hershey bar.

 

[Brandon237]

No, my friends are more valuable to me than 10 other people.

This is what I wanted to hear. The value of people.
I myself wouldn't kill my friend, but obviously I don't think I'd do something right by doing so. Objectively, it's 10 people vs 1 person. These 10 people may also be best friends to other people. By not killing your friend you'd probably shatter lives of many people, making whole families fall into despair..
To be honest, I wouldn't be able to kill my friend. But if I could shut down my emotions for a moment and let my brain do the job, I would rather kill both my friend and myself rather than letting 10 other people die.

The problem is the "you don't know the 10 people AND you would have to actively kill your FRIEND to save them" isn't much of a choice.

This is exactly what I wanted to achieve.. if there was a situation "you know these 10 people and not this one", you'd say "of course I'd 'actively kill' that one person, I don't even know him. Even though I'd be the killer". But here goes the real moral problem - can you sacrifice yourself so much, that you can kill your friend to save 10 other people, who are also friends to many other people, who may be parents, sons, wives and husbands..

Some say, that "if I kill my friend, I will be the killer. If I don't, 10 people will die, but I won't be guilty. But the problem is, you will. It's up to you, if they will live, or if they'll die - even though you're not the one who will pull the trigger.

Some say, that thousands of people die everyday, so 10 more or 10 less doesn't make big difference.
Quoting one of the greatest villains of all time:

The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

Isn't it?

PS. I didn't want to make it a poll, because then I'd hear more "yes/no" instead of "yes/no, because.."

The fact is that when I pulled the trigger I would be looking at my best friend who I had known for years. That is not gonna happen. I am not suicidal either, so the whole suicide afterwards doesn't work for me. Yes, peoples lives would be shattered, but if I shot my friend, it would be my life and the lives of his family members, who I also know as friends.

Those 10 people will die and their families shattered, and it is worse than my friend dying, but it isn't worse for me and my friend. I am selfish and weak and get very attached to my friends. You can't change my decision, and yes, those 10 people will become a statistic, how many people I killed.

But I would still save my friend.

This whole dilemma is a subjective one, so you aren't going to have anyone with friends answer objectively.

Although this is probably the only moral dilemma I have been able to answer honestly without being in that position. Even thinking about shooting my friend makes me rather upset.

 

[Czargent Sane]

umm, no. I'm not the murderer here, the person who is prepared to kill ten people if I dont kill my friend is the murderer. I want to keep it that way. if someone ELSE kills those ten, twenty, a thousand people, it is not on your head. they are a killer, they might have killed them anyway, regardless of your choice, even if they dont kill them, that would be considered mercy on THEIR part, not sacrifice on yours.

the people who chose no are not being selfish necessarily, they are refusing to cooperate with the weird omnipotent killer.

 

[Mechsoap]

dont f***ing care if 10 human or so die, i would rather shoot 10 people then shoot 1 my friend

 

[Zykon TheLich]

No of course I wouldn't kill my friend. Murder someone I know to stop someone else murdering ten people? Not a chance.

If I kill my friend I have killed them, if someone else kills 10 people, that's on their head not mine.

 

[Grahav]

Harder question: Would you kill 10 people to save your friend?

Even harder question: Would you kill 10 children to save your friend?

 

[Jaranja]

Er...

I don't know any of these people. I am immune to guilt and I am a pacifist[footnote]AT YO FACE[/footnote]. I'm not directly taking anyone's life, especially one of my friends'.

That gave me a chuckle, thank you.

Hell no, I wouldn't kill my friend to save 1000 strangers.

 

[Fusionxl]

I'm honestly surprised at the responses here

Would most people really kill 10 people to save one? 10 people with kids, relatives, friends. The pain your selfishness would cause is unimaginable.

Your ego isn't the bloody center of the world.

 

[Cody211282]

Why would I care about 10 strangers over my friend? So no I wouldn't.

Harder question: Would you kill 10 children to save your friend?

Considering 90% of kids are annoying I probably would.