To your voting scenario: I vote to torture the terrorist who proposes this choice to everyone. In other words, asking each one personally, “Would you rather be dust specked or have someone randomly tortured?” would be much like a terrorist demanding $1 per person (from the whole world), otherwise he will kill someone. In this case, of course, one would kill the terrorist.
I’m still thinking about the best way to set up the lever to make the point the most obvious.
To your voting scenario: I vote to torture the terrorist who proposes this choice to everyone. In other words, asking each one personally, “Would you rather be dust specked or have someone randomly tortured?” would be much like a terrorist demanding $1 per person (from the whole world), otherwise he will kill someone. In this case, of course, one would kill the terrorist.
I’m still thinking about the best way to set up the lever to make the point the most obvious.