Would you cut off your own leg if it was the only way to save another person's life?
-May they rest in peace.
Would you torture someone if you thought it would result in information that would prevent a bomb from exploding and killing hundreds of people?
-MK Ultra style? If peaceful ways could not extract that information, then I'll put my compassion aside for the sake of the many.
Would you politically oppress a people for a limited time if it increased the overall well-being of the citizenry?
-You mean establishing a dictatorship, or, say, a dictatorship disguised in democracy? No. I would lead the way for people who are willing to follow in order to own their own well-being. I will not take that decision in their stead.
You are a physician with five dying patients and one healthy person in the waiting room. Would you harvest the organs of the one to save the five?
If he's willing to do that, they live. If not, they die.
I wonder how that conversation would go for most of us:
"Greetings, healthy person. So, I'm someone who's not willing to cut off a leg to save the life of a stranger, but would you be kind enough to allow me to dissect you and help these dying people by taking your kidney, heart, liver, and maybe sell the rest in the black market? I swear I will stitch up your body back together and mummify it. You don't want that? You want it put in a crematorium, and have your ashes spread in the blablablabla romantic nostalgic place? Whatever, man. So that's a yes? That's a no? Fuck you. Fuck you. These poor people are dying because of you. Shame on you. Would you drink this cup of water? No, it's not poisoned that would ruin your precious organs. No, no sleeping drugs there. Sheesh, I Wonder where you got that idea from. Just drink it, man. Fuck you for not drinking it. Fuck you."