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The choice of a possible criminal over an innocent student which would you do?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) July 29th, 2010

What would you do if faced with this choice? Now people always say what they will or will not do in a given situation especially when it means life or death to them or another person. There was this movie “The Box” where you had a choice to make; push the button and get $1,000,000 dollars but someone in the world you don’t know will die as a result of it. Many say they would not do it but some secretly want to or would.

Taking that idea what would you do if you were hustled into the back of a cargo van with no windows at gun point. You were let out in what looks to be a warehouse. 3 men with assault machine pistols are standing behind you. A man places a pistol with a single bullet in your hand. He tells you if you point it at any direction other than in front of you the 3 men will cut you down. 15 yards in front of you against a wall with high intensity lights on them so they cannot see you but you can see them 6 men were marched in. The man who gave you the gun told you that to leave the place you are at you have to shoot one of the 6 men. He tells you that 4 of the men are guilty of murder, molestation, terrorism, rape, etc, but 2 of the men were just hustled up just like you, they did nothing. You do not get a hint of who is who. They all beefy with tattoos, 2 are Latino, 2 are white, one Black and one Asian. If you refuse to shoot the man tells you that school is about to release in your neighborhood and a sniper’s bullet will fall one of the students to take the place of the guy you didn’t shoot. The man also tells you that you have 20 minutes to decide who gets the bullet in the pistol you hold in your hand. Once you pop one of the guys along the wall, you will be handed $5,000,000 cash and the keys to a new Jag and be free to drive yourself back home. You won’t know if you shot one of the guitly or one of the innocent guys until 6 months later by annonymous mail. Just what do you do? Do you blast one of the guys hoping you got one who actually committed a terrible crime, against all odds try escape, refuse and hope he is bluffing, do you turn the gun on yourself?

Disclaimer No person were actually threatened in this question it is all conjecture

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