Well here I am on the outside looking in again...But this story says more about the persons leadership, vs follower mentality to me.. If you would do the killing in order to save the many, you would tend to be a
leader, and feel more responsible for the group... If you would not do it, and allow fate to take over, you would then fall into the follower catagory, and hope someone else would take the job away and take the heat for doing the deed...Not passing judgement on anyone, and hope to have none passed on me...But i would not expect some last second reprieve so yes I could do it..but I would have part of my soul dead, for the rest of my life, because of it..