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No longer a Virgin Bride to Dreamer ~ May 17th, 2014
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I am going to base my response on the original OP.
I will place myself as the bystander - It is the only way I can get in her/his head.
If I am given the responsibility of stopping the horrific death of five people, when clearly they ALL will die in a fatal accident and not knowing which of the one people will die if I stop the train - I most certainly would flip the switch.
I will not base this decision on who they are as human beings sharing this world with me, because the OP stated they are strangers.
Clearly, this will not give me a *god* complex - It is simple. I am placed in a situation where I must act quickly. Somehow intuitively I must know, one will die and four will live. Sadly, five will die if I do not.
I also will not allow myself to look at them as men, women or children - serial killers or the next mother theresa. I need to look at them all as innocent.
Flip the Switch **
And I will sleep well afterward. Even if it means I learn the next day, they are all serial killing rapist.
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