participate, the issues before you are (1) Should you accept the responsibility of one person's death; (2) If you do not act, must you accept the responsibility for twenty people's death; and (3) If you shoot one person, have you offset any moral responsibility for that death offset saving the lives of nineteen others; and (4) Should you take into consideration the fact that all twenty locals would prefer you to act as opposed to any inclinations you may have not to act?
Generally, act utilitarianism states an action is right if its consequences are equal to or better than the consequences of any alternative actions open to the actor. If you assume the best consequence is that the least amount of people should die, you should shoot the one local. However, this would only be the best consequence if you do not take into consideration that after actin
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