Could you kill someone if you had choice?

[Twad]

Are we assuming in this scenario that the Mastermind won't shoot after you've killed the person anyway?

Yeah, if the mastermind is stup-- crazy enough to do this (wich is a overly complicated setup, and there are beter ways to force ppl to choose "kill the victim", just check Milgram's experiments), chances are we will get shot in the face anyway in the end.
I would not shoot the helpless victim.

 

[Tspoon]

No. Definitely, no. I could go as far as, say, kicking someone if my life depended on it. Which I would then feel guilty about for ages if they were in any way hurt. Kill someone? Never. I have my priorities and I'm far from being at the top of the list. Other people come first.

No, I'm not smart or practical. At all.

*Grabs rifle*

 

[delta46]

Don't care, I'd still kill them.

Even though it'd lead to chaos? Plus, if you did save him/her, you'd be remembered as a hero.

I'd still be dead though. And thats too permanent for me.

Did you get that from the Bartimaeus trilogy?

OP: I would do it but the decision would haunt me for the rest of my life

 

[Carboncrown]

Pretend to faint and take my chances against the mastermind. Or run like hell, it's pretty hard hit a moving target.

There's enough chance that neither of us are getting out of there just by complying.

Cheap answer? Maybe, but I like to think I wouldn't play the masterminds games. And there always the possybility that they're "just testing me".

 

[interspark]

dude, i cant kill a spider without feeling rotten about it. i dont know this guys potential, i mean, im pretty sure I wont save the world some day or solve world hunger but if it's a stranger then i just dont know, do I?

 

[fgdfgdgd]

Being a person of great apathy, i could, easily infact.

...does that make me a bad person?

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

soooo....the masked man gave me a gun....Ok im just going to shoot the masked man, and because im a decent shot with a pistol i will be fine.

 

[interspark]

Pretend to faint and take my chances against the mastermind. Or run like hell, it's pretty hard hit a moving target.

There's enough chance that neither of us are getting out of there just by complying.

Cheap answer? Maybe, but I like to think I wouldn't play the masterminds games. And there always the possybility that they're "just testing me".

i think if it is a test, than its likely that the right answer is to sacrifice yourself, but then again it depends on whos testing you i guess

 

[duchaked]

it'd be so easy if I could choose someone I knew...

if not...I'd hesitate

 

[instantbenz]

i'd be surprised if people would say no ... now if i would recognize the person in some way, i'd shoot myself, but really, if i don't know em ... BLAT

 

[SensibleCrout]

If I take this scenario seriously the best thing you could do is throw yourself to the ground immediately, pulling the executee with you and then figuring out, where to crawl.

If you don't the evil mastermind would of course shoot you both. If you do it he would kill you because you are not going to be loyal after he put you in such an awful situatioen. And if you do not he would shoot the other guy, too, because he meant to kill him in the first place. In front of that analysis I would not take someone's life.

But what if I was 100% sure that the evil mastermind would let me go if I did it? I would like to say I would not do it, but I really can't predict what would happen in that kind of adrenaline-drugged state. I could become the moral hero or the super ruthless egoist. I just don't know.

 

[Captain Incapable]

Kill them.
If it's a complete stranger to me I'd kill them.
Survival Instincts. But that's not to say I would feel no remorse.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

Unfortunately Yes, My survival instinct would definitely take over me and pull the trigger. However I would then try to track down the mastermind and shoot him. on his knees, In the back of the head with the same gun.

Unless the victim was a chav or a hobo, then I'd track down the mastermind and tell him I look forward to doing buisness with him in the future.

EDIT: However if he looked like an ok guy and my mind was not all over the place in panic I would ask him if he had any last requests and I would then do whatever it takes to fulfill them.

 

[Tourette]

Yes. No problem.

 

[LittleChone]

...

...FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-!!!!!!
(Shoot myself)

 

[LittleChone]

I just hope I don't end up in that situation.

 

[Alade]

Yeah, I would probably do this 6 billion times in a row just to save my own life, loved ones included.

 

[kikon9]

I'm sorry but the average person would kill to save themselves. It doesn't matter what you say here, you will 9 times out of 10.

 

[OldRat]

Yeah. It's me or him, and I honestly can't think myself responsible for it if I'm being forced to do it. One person's going to die, and I believe it's only fair I have the right to save my life. I wouldn't expect anything else from the other person if our positions were swapped, either.

 

[ShawnShady]

i'd kill him and save my own life, simple.