I'd have my friend live, because if I kill him, he definetly lives. I only have the words of a crazy person that the other ten die, and why would he anyway? He's already tested me, as far as I know, he killed them.
Would you kill your friend to save 10 other people
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Maaaaaaan...I hated that choice in Infamous...My best friend, I guess, since I could at least atone for the 10 people by making sure he does something useful with his life, something that would positively affect many more people.
I wouldn't play by the rules. I'd make sure the people behind it were caught, and I'd do my best to protect my friend, but if it meant the death of those 10 people, and my friend, and possibly my own incarceration for the murder, that would still be worth it. I don't give in to blackmail.
No. I wouldn't have the heart to kill a friend in cold blood. If forced to do that I would turn the gun I had to use to shoot them on myself
Some people here have been looking at it as a simple numbers game (10/11 live, vs 1/11 live) this is a horribly closed minded and shortsighted way to look at the problem.
First of all ~15,500 die per day, ~650 per hour, ~11 per second. Whether you kill your friend or not, 10 people WILL die.
If in killing your friend you think you are making 'a sacrifice for humanity' you couldn?t be farther from the truth. If the people whose lives you were saving were 10 of the top doctors in the world you would have a stronger argument, but these are 10 complete strangers. For all you know you could be saving 10 serial-killers or rapists that proceed to brutalize hundreds of victims.
Even if it were 10 average citizens you were saving by killing your friend it?s not up to you to be the judge of fate, and if you did something like this thought experiment in real life you would be prosecuted and most likely found guilty of murder, because you couldn?t prove that you saved those people lives, but it would be very easy to prove that you killed your friend.
First of all ~15,500 die per day, ~650 per hour, ~11 per second. Whether you kill your friend or not, 10 people WILL die.
If in killing your friend you think you are making 'a sacrifice for humanity' you couldn?t be farther from the truth. If the people whose lives you were saving were 10 of the top doctors in the world you would have a stronger argument, but these are 10 complete strangers. For all you know you could be saving 10 serial-killers or rapists that proceed to brutalize hundreds of victims.
Even if it were 10 average citizens you were saving by killing your friend it?s not up to you to be the judge of fate, and if you did something like this thought experiment in real life you would be prosecuted and most likely found guilty of murder, because you couldn?t prove that you saved those people lives, but it would be very easy to prove that you killed your friend.
No and I wouldn't feel guilty as I did not kill ten 'innocent' individuals; an external force that put me in the position to choose between the two did, I did not blow up the plane, I simply did not choose to murder my 'friend'. I only did what I consider to be right, I don't really hold responsibility over another doing wrong in reaction to that.
It isn't my ego, I actually said that I am a selfish and weak bastard who gets far too attached to my friends. I am weak as I could never pull the trigger. I am selfish as I could never make myself lose a friend. Besides, I know the families of my friends, I would KNOW the suffering I wrought, especially on myself. I wouldn't even know if it had happened if it were 10 people I don't know.Fusionxl said: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.
Have you ever had a good friend? I mean a really good friend? It doesn't sound like it.