Question

Respond to the following moral dilemma:

You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don’t he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don’t have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?

Answer 1

Seeing as the gaurd is sadistic, he will find a way to kill your son one way or another, with or without the co-operation of the father. Therefore, I think it's best for the father to pull the chair because that way the innocent inmate doesn't die, yet if he doesn't pull the chair then the son will die anyway as will the inmate.

Pulling the chair was the morally wrong thing but is favourable because you save the life of an innocent inmate.
However this is a sadistic guard, he will probably kill the other inmate anyway, and it is a concentration camp so the probability of staying alive is low anyway.