Re: Moral Hypothetical
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If I choose C, do they know? I'd probably do that if it just sort of worked out that only John died (this way the remaining wouldn't feel super guilty).
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what? you are so concerned with minimizing the amount of life lost that you'll force death upon an unwilling party rather than allow people their self-chosen equity of .03(death)+.97(5 million)? the employees would feel guilty about you choosing C, sure, but you hiding that fact from them does not make the cause of what would be their guilt (that John was killed, and by your choice) any less appalling.
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You forgot, in your equity analysis, to account for possible friendships within the social world that the company is. Therefore, the equation would be more along the lines of 0.03 (death) + 0.97 (5M) + n/100 (losing a friend) + n/99 (losing a friend) +n/98 (losing a friend) where n is the number of friends hyou have in teh company. You could also write it as 0.03 (death) +0.97 (5M) - 0.03 (VF) where VF is the value you attribute to the company's personnel, as a whole.
I'm a nit.
Obviously the right answer is to let them lottery it up if all of the participants are willing (aka they feel the EV of that is positive for them). This would probably have a waiting list in a poor, unhappy environment but 0 participants in a rich environment. Obviously the willingness to participate is proportional to the inverse of one's wealth and expectation for future income.
BTW, stupid question imo.
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