MORAL DILEMMA 2

So this is hypothetical.

There is a bomber.

He has planted a series of bombs that will kill many people in a crowded place

He will not tell you where he has planted them and you only have hours to defuse them so usually the dilemma would be

Do you torture him until he reveals where the bombs are thereby saving many other lives?

The trouble is your over enthusiastic sidekick has already tortured him...a bit too much and she has killed him before he could divulge info, so the dilemma now is,

The guy who died, you have now found out, left the codes to defuse each bomb with 10 different people. None of these people know that they have the codes, or what they are for, but they have been hypnotized to not tell anyone what the codes are. You can not deprogram them . The only way to get the codes is to torture them.


You have narrowed the numbers down so that you now know that among the 25 people you have in custody who knew the dead bloke are the 10 with the codes.

Do you torture all 25 in order to save many, many more?