User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 361: The Two Bombs, Review./@comment-5426822-20131122222348/@comment-7418318-20131123102523

I don't think in that kind of situation and in just ten seconds anyone would be able to weigh all that you just listed in their minds.

Sure, when you have plenty of time and are sitting back behind your computer, you can reason out the moral side of things in detail, but in that situation, that intense stress and with just ten seconds to make the decision? I think here instinct and emotion will carry a lot more weight than logical reasoning.

For most people protecting the young over the old and women over men is the instinctive thing to do.

So I think that most people would choose to sacrifice the old man to save the young woman and only start to agonize over the moral implications after the fact... that is of those people who actually manage to make any decision in time. The vast majority of people would probably just freeze up until it was too late.