You have the magical power to stop one and only one of the following two scenarios. Which would you prevent?
1. You torture someone in the hope of getting the information you need to prevent thirty deaths.
2. You refuse to torture someone, and ten people die because you did not get the information to save them.
2 comments:
I'll prevent #2. I think it would affect me more.
Ah, the Jack Bauer dilemma.
In #1, we don't know whether the torture is actually effective ("in the hope of getting the information") -- so you may torture the person and the 30 people may die anyway. Also, to be honest, I don't think I would be able to torture anyone, regardless of what information they had. So prevent #1.
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