Personally, i would save the kid. This is a decision I would like to make. Choosing one or another. But if through action I would be able to save one life, I would do it without hesitation knowing that through inaction I would be killing/letting two lives end.
The old man, would be a person I believe one would have more to gain by saving. He could be a man with a lot of wisdom, and respect. Thus making him a more ideal person in the end. But since he would shortly die of natural causes and believing that he has lived a pious life he would want you to save the kid who has a long life ahead of him. Assuming that the idiot doesn't get caught in the tracks again.
Saving the kid, though he's nothing but trouble, would allow him to have a longer life and with any luck he would turn his life around. If I knew he was a deviant I would attempt to befriend or at least direct him in a path that would make the most out of the new life he was granted.
The bomb has no effect on the answer. Assuming the old man is a pious person he would be ok with his death, if it meant saving the kid. The old man would have made his peace a while ago. So I would still save the kid. I would be curious to see what his final words are before the blast waves hit us. Hell it would be one hell of a firework show.
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