Would you kill your friend to save 10 other people

[Adecristo]

Maybe this question was asked before, but I didn't see such topic; so:

Imagine that you were sent on a mission. You have 24 hours to kill your best friend while talking with him/her, by shooting him/her in his/her chest. He/she would know you did that, and wouldn't know, why. (You can't tell him/her about that)

If you don't do that, 10 innocent people you don't know will die (for example, a small air plane will be blown up).

No matter what you chose, you can't ever tell anyone about what you've done and why, or both 10 innocent people and your best friend will be killed.

What would you choose: Let your friend live, and have the burden of killing 10 innocent people you didn't even know, or kill your friend and save 10 other lives, who don't know about that and won't even thank you for that?

 

[WanderingBiscuits]

Ten people i don't know for my best friend? Hell NAH

 

[Mr Cwtchy]

No. I simply lack the moral fibre required to take a person's life, particularly someone I know.

Maybe that makes me a murderer, but I'll take inaction over pulling the trigger myself. Really, it's the fault of the mission giver anyway.

 

[Muramasa89]

10 Strangers and more die every day. Do I really care about them? No. Friend will live.

 

[Audio]

Nope.
The death of 10 people wont really impact humanity much.

 

[Jark212]

Hell no, my best friend's live is far more valuable to me then 10 random strangers. Thousands of random strangers die every day...

 

[Super Toast]

No. If I didn't know them I'd let my friend live. And this needs a poll.

 

[Faulty Turmoil]

I'd rather let 10 people I don't know get killed by someone else, than murdering my best friend.

 

[Woodsey]

Probably not - no matter how much people like to talk up "logic" in these hypothetical situations, if it got down to it logic is the last thing they'd be thinking about.

 

[Betancore]

I'd let the 10 people die. If it's from a plane crash or something, then I wouldn't be the one pulling the trigger, whereas if I wanted to save them, I'd have to shoot my best friend myself. Besides, I don't know those 10 strangers, many people die each day, and I don't want to kill my best friend. That's all.

 

[The Stonker]

This is a very moral question because if you choose to keep your friend alive then your hurting the lives of more then 10 people and that could be 100 of people.
While you kill your friend then you label your self as a murderer and get exiled from your family and friends but save these 10 people which even don't know that you saved them!
So it's quite amazing isn't it? I would save my friend but I would also be plagued with the lives of hundreds of people damaged by my own actions.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

No. For the simple reason that those 10 people could be my friend but aren't.

But the thought: among those 10 people, could be *tadaa!* a friend of someone else.

 

[Leviathan_]

Friend lives, Strangers die.

 

[Rewold]

10 dead people is better than just one what with the overpopulation and all. Seriously though I couldn't kill anyone.

 

[derdeutschmachine]

you could tell me a million people would die and I still couldn't care less. The world is overpopulated anyway.

 

[Vhite]

If it was a good friend I would rather sacraficed myself if I could and if it were just someone who I know from school or someone like that then... sorry
If it was a good friend and I couldnt sacrafice myself then 10 poor bastards is going down.

 

[JacobyPAX]

what circumstances would arise to create such a scenario. The only idea I can come up with is some super-villains convoluted scheme to test my moral character. Why should I care about the 10 people, for all I know they are rapists and murderers. I know that my friend is at least relatively good.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

Total agreement with the whole thread so far!

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.

 

[Faulty Turmoil]

If it was a good friend I would rather sacraficed myself if I could and if it were just someone who I know from school or someone like that then... sorry
If it was a good friend and I couldnt sacrafice myself then 10 poor bastards is going down.

I'll tell you what instead of sacrificing yourself how about killing the person telling you to do it?
I know I would.

 

[scw55]

No. I would blaim the mission giver. I would hold who ever placed this burden on me responsable.