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It isn't a matter of killing one person, it's a matter of saving 5. All six are dying, you choose to do the most good you're able. How can that be faulted?
Now what if the one person were Bill Gates who promised to donate $5bil to the charities of your choice if you saved him? Surely, you can save many, many more than 5 people with $5bil.
Your last post appears to be reversed. You're making it a simpler decision by saving dozens, hundreds, etc. instead of the one. Saving two would be enough for me. Doesn't mean what-if's won't haunt me on bad days but the logic is easy.
The difficulty for me would be making a choice between two people. One vs. one.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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