‘Die trying’ doesn’t save the 101 people. If anything, I’d think about the TDT-related benefits of having precommitted to not giving in to blackmail, but in this particular example it’s far from clear that the king wouldn’t have offered you the deal in the first place had he been sure you were going to refuse it—though it is in most similar situations I’m actually likely to face in real life.
Two of the three actions I suggested saved 102 people (assuming that you aren’t one of the 100 innocent people). Two of them are possible in the least convenient universe. Two of them are moral. Those three tradeoffs are the only ones I considered- or do you consider kicking a child in the face to be a moral act?
There is no benefit to committing to not give into blackmail in this case, except that it might reduce the chances of the scenario happening. One of the advantages to noncompliance is that it reduces the chance of the scenario recurring- can you be blackmailed into kicking any number of children with the same 100 hostages?
‘Die trying’ doesn’t save the 101 people. If anything, I’d think about the TDT-related benefits of having precommitted to not giving in to blackmail, but in this particular example it’s far from clear that the king wouldn’t have offered you the deal in the first place had he been sure you were going to refuse it—though it is in most similar situations I’m actually likely to face in real life.
Two of the three actions I suggested saved 102 people (assuming that you aren’t one of the 100 innocent people). Two of them are possible in the least convenient universe. Two of them are moral. Those three tradeoffs are the only ones I considered- or do you consider kicking a child in the face to be a moral act?
There is no benefit to committing to not give into blackmail in this case, except that it might reduce the chances of the scenario happening. One of the advantages to noncompliance is that it reduces the chance of the scenario recurring- can you be blackmailed into kicking any number of children with the same 100 hostages?