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If the purpose of this is to make a life or death decision based on an "easy calculation" (how absurd is that) to save the most lives, one needs to consider the INFINITE increase from 0 deaths to 1 death (you shoot and kill him). The increase from 1 death to 5 or more is not NEARLY as big an increase.

Therefore, you better be pretty damn certain that you will be saving lives before you make that infinite increase from 0 to 1.

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But that is not an infinite increase, numerically speaking; it is an increase of exactly 1. And a jump in deaths from 1 to 6 would be a numerical increase of exactly 5.

An increase from 1 to 6, in comparison with an increase from 0 to 1, is five times as large an increase in actual numbers. And I think we're comparing saving actual numbers of lives, not abstract percentages, aren't we ;-) ?