# Choose between 10,000 random people dying, or 100 innocents you choose.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-between-10-000-random-people-dying-or-100-innocents-you-choose/588097>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 6, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-between-10-000-random-people-dying-or-100-innocents-you-choose/588097 "2011-07-06T21:36:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-between-10-000-random-people-dying-or-100-innocents-you-choose/588097/101 "2011-07-13T19:17:05Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Tell him to go a government building in Pyongyang and indulge himself.

This will seem odd given that it’s coming from me, by why do you hate the Chinese?

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-between-10-000-random-people-dying-or-100-innocents-you-choose/588097/102 "2011-07-13T19:25:02Z")

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> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> This will seem odd given that it’s coming from me, by why do you hate the Chinese?

Well, if there are any Chinese there among the North Korean functionaries, call it collateral damage. If I have to direct a bloodthirsty Norse apparition somewhere so he can get his lance wet, I may as well pick people who run a country I don’t like.

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