I stand next to a person tied to a chair that I know has information that can help me save 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 people from being killed. Yet they won’t tell me what I need to know. How should I get them to tell me? Do I sink to their level to obtain the information? Do I bend the ‘rules’ just this once? Do I stick to the rules and let the masses perish.
I hope that I am never in a position to have to make that decision, but if I am, I have no idea what my actions would be.
What would you do?