A Father's Agonizing Choice

[Jazzy]

You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don't he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don't have any doubt that he means what he says.

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What would you do?

 

[Bluezone777]

Refuse to do what he says. Just because you have no doubt that he's honest doesn't make it so. If he's truly sadistic then there's no reason not to believe that he wouldn't kill both regardless of your choice. Wouldn't that be the definition of being sadistic?