[funmonkey54]

Originally Posted by devonin

If he were clearly intending to maliciously bring about the deaths of 100 people (as in the hastily edited second example) you have a totally different kind of situation than someone accidentally through ignorance or folly allowing the deaths of 100 people.

IE. In the crazy person with the bomb example, you aren't weighing the lives of 1 innocent against 100 innocents, but 1 clearly guilty person against 100 innocents.

oh. My answer was in reference to the first situation.

In the bomb situation, I would like this question answered. Why can I not just shoot the man wearing the bomb? He cannot kill the people if he is dead and unable to trigger the bomb. And what is to say that killing the innocent person will ACTUALLY stop him? He could very easily turn around and trigger the bomb anyways. Killing him would, in theory, eliminate that as a possibility.