A Father's Agonizing Choice

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 would you do?

Unfortunately, either way someone is going to die. Whether it'd be your son or another innocent inmate, you have no choice over the matter of saving your sons life. Despite the fact that you want to save your son, it can't be done. If your son really loved you, he would understand the choice that you had to make and if he was understanding enough, he would know that he was going to die either way, so why not just let the guard take his life instead of another innocent victim. It is very hard to see your son die and know that you will be the cause of it, but the other inmate's family will be very thankfully to you for making the hard sacrifice that you had to make. Either way, concentration camps were known that never let out victims again. You were there until you died. Everyone in the concentration camp is going to die at some point during their stay there and by helping in killing your son, you are ending his suffering by not letting him live on to see others get sick and die excruciating deaths just as he would have.