What's worrying is that most people would kill the ten strangers.
What's seriously worrying is the 40 BOTH!! answers on the poll.
OT: I'd kill myself, very reluctantly.
However, I'd be pissed if noone knew what had happened.
I'd hate it that I'd end my own life to save ten strangers and my family wouldn't know I'd died so ten others could live, instead believing I'd just up and vanished one day.
And to those people saying that 'In the situation, the will to survive overcomes ALL else', I highly doubt that.
The will to survive is strong, but at the end of the day it's just adrenaline, same as any other adrenaline yu get from any adrenaline-producing stressful situation.
There is no special chemical, released by life-threatening situations, that changes the effects.
You've all had adrenaline rushes.
Have they made you lose all emotion and care for other human beings?
I'm willing to bet no. Adrenaline certainly doesn't do that for me.
On top of that, you can, if you know how, calm yourself down and bring the stress level to a lower level, lowering the adrenaline and thus putting you in a much more normal, calm, and rational state of mind.
Adrenaline is designed to help you escape from a situation your body percieves as a threat, sure, and it would be working if it made you think 'Yeah, I'll burn the ten randomers', but it doesn't temporarily outright block compassion or the want to help other people. You would still be able to go "Wait, no, I can't just let these 10 people die!".
Unless you're a heartless bastard.